A CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY BLOCK-FRONT KNEEHOLE BUREAU

BOSTON, CIRCA 1750-1770

細節

A CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY BLOCK-FRONT KNEEHOLE BUREAU
Boston, circa 1750-1770
Appears to retain its original brasses. Center short drawer inscribed in graphite E.S Cutter/Oct. 6, 1884.
30½ in. high, 36½ in. wide, 20 5/8 in. deep

來源

Descended in the Harrison-Gray-Otis house, Boston Purchased from Joe Kindig, Jr., & Son, York, Pennsylvania, 1982

出版

Patricia E. Kane, "Living with Antiques: A Saint Louis couple collects," The Magazine Antiques (May 2002), p. 115, pl.VI.

拍品專文

Block-front furniture was primarily made by cabinetmakers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with distinctive regional differences in construction and decorative expression. The rounded blocking and serpentine-shaped brackets of this example are characteristic of the interpretation of Massachusetts cabinetmakers. A closer look at the construction of the case and drawers reveals features typically associated with furniture made in the Boston area in the middle of the eighteenth century, such as the top sliding on the dovetailed ends of the case sides and the cockbeading applied to the case rather than the drawer facades.