Property from the Collection of a Founding Family of Connecticut
Chippendale Carved Cherrywood Bonnet-Top Chest-on-Chest, Lord group, Colchester, Connecticut, circa 1785
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January 21, 04:08 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of a Founding Family of Connecticut
Chippendale Carved Cherrywood Bonnet-Top Chest-on-Chest
Lord group
Colchester, Connecticut
circa 1785
Finials are replaced.
Height 86 1/2 in. by Width 42 in. by Depth 21 1/2 in.
Sotheby’s, New York, Important Americana, January 23, 2010, lot 452.
This chest-on-chest relates directly to the Deming family chest-on-chest in the collection of Historic Deerfield. Thomas and Alice Kugelman with Robert Lionetti have identified this piece as belonging to the "Lord group." For additional information see Thomas P. Kugelman and Alice K. Kugelman with Robert Lionetti, Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800, (Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Society Museum, 2005), p. 217-9.