Lot 142
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A CHIPPENDALE CHERRYWOOD SERVER

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A CHIPPENDALE CHERRYWOOD SERVER
ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE BELDEN (1770-1838), WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT
The serpentine top above a conforming case with two long drawers with line inlay above a trio of cupboard doors with line inlay over a serpentine base molding, on ogee bracket feet--37 5/8in. high, 40 3/4in. wide, 20 1/4in. deep

Lot Essay

A secretary in the collection of the Wadsworth Antheneum is inscribed by George Belden and shows a similar open serpentine front and ogee-bracket feet as found on the server above. See John Kirk, Connecticut Furniture Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Hartford, CT, 1967), entry 131.