Details
A CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY BLOCK-FRONT CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
The rectangular top with thumbmolded edge above an applied cavetto molding centering a rectangular slide over a conforming case fitted with three long blocked drawers, the top drawer with three alternating relief and recessed intaglio-carved lobed shells each with petal and cross-hatched iron basket centers, all on a molded base on four ogee-bracket feet, base of a chest-on-chest
36in. high, 43¼in. wide, 21¾in. deep
The rectangular top with thumbmolded edge above an applied cavetto molding centering a rectangular slide over a conforming case fitted with three long blocked drawers, the top drawer with three alternating relief and recessed intaglio-carved lobed shells each with petal and cross-hatched iron basket centers, all on a molded base on four ogee-bracket feet, base of a chest-on-chest
36in. high, 43¼in. wide, 21¾in. deep
Provenance
Israel Sack, Boston
Ralph Blum, Beverly Hills, California
John Gourgas Collection, Parke-Bernet Galleries, April 14, 1962
Ralph Blum, Beverly Hills, California
John Gourgas Collection, Parke-Bernet Galleries, April 14, 1962
Literature
Gregor Norman Wilcox, "The California Home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Blum,"The Magazine Antiques,vol. XXXIX, no. 6, June 1941, pp. 300-304.