PROBABLY WETHERSFIELD, CONNECTICUT, 1760-1790

Details

A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD CHEST-ON-CHEST
PROBABLY WETHERSFIELD, CONNECTICUT, 1760-1790
85 ½ in. high, 39 7/8 in. wide, 19 ¼ in. deep

Provenance

Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 11 October 2001, lot 307

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Lot Essay

For a related example see Thomas P. Kugelman and Alice K. Kugelman with Robert Lionetti, Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800 (Hartford, 2005), pp. 70-77, pls. 27a-e.

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