VERY FINE AND RARE QUEEN ANNE CARVED AND FIGURED MAHOGANY BONNET-TOP HIGH CHEST, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1750 |

The concave-molded swan’s-neck cresting with urn and corkscrew-twist flame finials, above a frieze of three drawers, the tall central drawer with block molding over four graduated drawers all with cockbeaded molding, set on a case with bolection carved molding, over a long drawer above a frieze of three drawers, the center reverse-blocked, all with original bat-wing brass bail pulls and escutcheons, above a scalloped apron with acorn drops, on cabriole legs with C-scroll molding terminating in pad feet.

Wayne Pratt, Inc., Woodbury, Connecticut.

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This Boston high chest exhibits a very rare characteristic of having C-scrolls carved behind it's knees. While this attribute can found on contemporaneous Boston chairs and games tables, it is rarely found on high chests.  A very similar high chest with larger proportions is illustrated in Albert Sack’s The New Fine Points of Furniture Early American, (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993), p. 194. Another related high chest, albeit without having ‘waisted’ brass, was advertised by Israel Sack, Inc., advertisement Magazine Antiques, 137:5 (May 1990) inside cover.