Lot Essay
This exquisite chest-of-drawers exhibits a distinctive characteristic of a group of cabinetmakers working in Southeastern Connecticut. The drawer sides taper gently and the thickness of the wood at the drawer bottom becomes noticeably thinner at the top. As part of an ongoing study of early Southeastern Connecticut furniture, Robert Lionetti has found this purely aesthetic detail on about a dozen
survivals from the area. For a similarly constructed work, see the Devotion family dressing table sold, Christie's, New York, 17-18 January 2008, lot 445 and illustrated in Jane Katcher, David A. Schorsch and Ruth Wolfe, Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence, Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Volume II (New Haven, 2006) pp. 77-89.
survivals from the area. For a similarly constructed work, see the Devotion family dressing table sold, Christie's, New York, 17-18 January 2008, lot 445 and illustrated in Jane Katcher, David A. Schorsch and Ruth Wolfe, Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence, Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Volume II (New Haven, 2006) pp. 77-89.