A CHIPPENDALE CARVED AND INLAID CHERRYWOOD CHEST-ON-CHEST

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A CHIPPENDALE CARVED AND INLAID CHERRYWOOD CHEST-ON-CHEST
COASTAL MASSACHUSETTS OR CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY, 1780-1800

In two sections: the upper part with a scrolled pediment centering three flame finials above a frieze of three short drawers, the center drawer inlaid with a fan, over four graduated long drawers flanked by fluted pilasters with pulvinated capitals; the lower section with a conforming molding over four graduated drawers and base molding, on ogee bracket feet--81¼in. high, 42½in. wide, 22¾in. deep

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Sold in these Rooms, January 26, 1985, lot 268

拍品專文

This chest-on-chest is one ofa group of four examples that appear tobe from the same cabinetshop. Each chest features a straight-gront facade with the same brasses, fluted pilasters with pulvinated captials, spurred central plinth and fluted or plain flanking plinths, rounded spiral finials, and either a fan-carved or in this instance, fan-inlaid central drawer. One of the four is also made of cherrywood and shares the same ogee foot ;and spur return profile; this example is illustrated as "Superior" by Albert Sack in The New Fine Points of Furniture (New York, 1993), p. 116. One of the other two chests is in the collection of Winterthur Museum (Downs, American Furniture (New York, 1952), no. 182) and a photograph of the fourth is in the collection of the Decorative Arts Photographic Collection, Winterthur Museum, 66.2340.

This is one of the few known chests-on-chests embellished with an inlaid central fan. The origin of this chest and the others like it have been linked to coastal Massachusetts but the rounded finials, spurred plinth and overall feel of the chests could also place them in the central and western Massachusetts region of the Connecticut River valley.