Lot 467
467
A FEDERAL MAHOGANY BOW-FRONT CHEST-OF-DRAWERS

Details
A FEDERAL MAHOGANY BOW-FRONT CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
NEW YORK, 1790-1810

The rectangular top with rounded front corners, bowed front and reeded edge over a conforming case with three graduated cockbeaded long drawers between crossbanded dividers, on ring-turned tapering legs with paw feet--37 1/2in. high, 36 1/2in. wide, 20 3/4in. deep

Lot Essay

For two nearly identical examples, see Charles Montgomery, American Furniture: the Federal Period, (New York, 1966), p. 184, no. 140; and Nancy McClelland, Duncan Phyfe and the English Regency 1795-1830, (New York, 1939), p. 103, pl. 89.