Lot 149
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A CHIPPENDALE WALNUT HIGH CHEST-OF-DRAWERS ON FRAME

Details
A CHIPPENDALE WALNUT HIGH CHEST-OF-DRAWERS ON FRAME
PENNSYLVANIA, 1760-1780

In two parts: the upper section with overhanging molded cornice above two short drawers with wooden secret hinges centering two stacked small drawers over two short drawers above four graduated drawers all with thumbmolding and flanked by fluted quarter columns; the lower section with mid-molding above scrolled front and side skirts each with central drop, on cabriole legs with trifid feet (appears to retain original brasses)--72 1/2in. high, 43 3/4in. wide, 24in. deep

Lot Essay

The distinctive central drop of this skirt with the flanking scrollwork is characteristic of furniture from Pennsylvania. A related high chest was sold in these Rooms, The Contents of Craig and Tarlton, on November 5 and 6, 1985, Lot 29. Another example, with deeply carved trifid feet, as on this chest, is signed "Samuel Morris, Joiner of Logtown 8mo. 5 1793," and is illustrated in Schiffer, Furniture and Its makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania, (Exton, PA, 1978), figs. 79-80.