Sale 1003
New York
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18 - 19 January 2002
Price realised
USD 16,450
Estimate
A FEDERAL INLAID BOW FRONT CHERRYWOOD CHEST-OF-DRAWERS Attributed to Spooner and Fitts (w. 1808-1813), Athol, Massachusetts, 1790-1810 The rectangular top with bowed front and outset rounded corners with banded edge above a conforming case fitted with four long drawers with rectangular inlaid reserves and cockbeaded surrounds over a shaped skirt with oval inlaid drop panel flanked by ring-turned engaged colonettes, on ring and baluster-turned legs and ball feet, appears to retain its original brasses 41in. high, 42in. wide, 21¼in. deep
Provenance
Richard W. Withington, Inc. on site auction, Simsbury, Connecticut, from the estate of Paul W. Cooley, 5-7 August 1975
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For more information on Spooner and Fitts, see note to lot 350.
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