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Property from a Private Nantucket Collection

A Very Fine Chippendale Block-End Serpentine Chest of Drawers, Boston, Massachusetts, Circa 1775

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

mahogany


appears to retain its original cast brass hardware; with key. (2 pieces)


height 31 ½ in. by width 38 in. by depth 20 ¼ in.; case width 33 in.

80 cm by 96.5 cm by 51.4 cm; 83.8 cm

Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American, (New York, Crown Publishers Inc., 1993), p. 95 listed as a "Masterpiece";


The collection is discussed in Johanna McBrien, “Downeast Destination,” Antiques & Fine Art, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer/Autumn 2011, pp. 126-34.