Lot 118
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A QUEEN ANNE TIGER MAPLE HIGH CHEST-OF-DRAWERS

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A QUEEN ANNE TIGER MAPLE HIGH CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
NEW HAMPSHIRE, DUNLAP SCHOOL, 1740-1770

In two sections: the upper case with molded cornice above three thumbmolded short drawers over four graduated thumbmolded long drawers; the lower case with molded mid-band over three graduated thumbmolded long drawers, the lowest with three false short drawer fronts, centering a shell and fan carved panel over a shaped skirt, on cabriole legs with pad-and-disc feet--76 1/4in. high, 40 1/4in. wide, 20 1/4in. deep

Lot Essay

For related examples, See Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era, (Boston, 1984), pp. 217-220, fig. 42; and The Currier Gallery of Art, The Dunlaps and Their Furniture, (Manchester, NH, 1970), pp. 10-14, fig. 16.