PROBABLY SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT, 1765-1785

Details

A CHIPPENDALE CHERRYWOOD DIMINUTIVE CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
PROBABLY SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT, 1765-1785
23 in. high, 22 in. wide, 11 ¼ in. deep

Provenance

Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Sold, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 23-25 May 1980, lot 1043
John Walton Antiques, Jewett City, Connecticut
The Sapadin Collection, Haddonfield, New Jersey

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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.

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