Lot 363
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A FEDERAL INLAID WALNUT CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
A FEDERAL INLAID WALNUT CHEST-OF-DRAWERS

PROBABLY NORTHERN KENTUCKY, CIRCA 1815

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A FEDERAL INLAID WALNUT CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
Probably Northern Kentucky, circa 1815
The rectangular top above a conforming case fitted with four line-inlaid graduated thumbmolded drawers flanked by inlaid meandering vines above a shaped skirt centering an inlaid stylized flower and vine motif, on French feet, appears to retain original brasses
40in. high, 39in. wide, 19in. deep

Lot Essay

A chest of drawers with a very similar dot-dash inlay on the canted case sides is in the The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and illustrated in The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts: A Collection of Southern Furniture, Paintings, Ceramics, Textiles, and Metalware (Old Salem, Inc., 1979), p.75.