A Very Fine and Rare CHIPPENDALE FIGURED MAHOGANY BLOCK-FRONT CHEST-ON-CHEST, Boston, Massachusetts, Circa 1775

Appears to retain original brass hardware and finials.

F.L. Dunne, Boston, Massachusetts;
E.C. Howe, Esq., Boston, Massachusetts;
Mrs. E.G. Buckner, Greenville, Delaware;
Adele Conway Mills, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;
Sotheby's New York, Important Americana, January 27, 1990, lot 1231 for $132,000

Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, New York, 1928, no. 312

Appears to retain original brass hardware and finials; upper section: second drawer from bottom with a repaired crack approximately 7 inches top upper proper left corner later fitted with two pins on top edge to secure crack; appears to retain all eight of its original brass locks on each long drawer; side panels with expected shrinkage age cracks; finial plinths appear to be original; proper left corner to cornice with a section missing; retains original dust bonnet and back boards; all secondary woods are white pine; cracks to each foot facing; underside of feet and pendant appear to retain original pine glue blocks; interior of upper case with screwed in blocks to secure cracks to shrinkage cracks on side panels; lower section interior with inset rectangular patch to each side panel to secure shrinkage cracks.
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