Property from the Collection of a Founding Family of Connecticut
Rare Chippendale Carved Blocked-End Reverse-Serpentine Cherrywood Chest of Drawers, probably Housatonic Valley, Litchfield County, Connecticut, circa 1785
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January 21, 04:02 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Property from the Collection of a Founding Family of Connecticut
Rare Chippendale Carved Blocked-End Reverse-Serpentine Cherrywood Chest of Drawers
probably Housatonic Valley, Litchfield County, Connecticut
circa 1785
Height 38 1/2 in. by Width 39 in. by Depth 19 1/2 in.: Case Width 34 1/2 in.
Elizabeth Robb “Libby” Larkin Duane (1916-2008), Buffalo, New York;
Sotheby’s, New York, Important Americana, September 26, 2008, lot 4.
Sotheby’s, New York, Important Americana, September 26, 2008, lot 4.
A nearly identical chest of drawers belonging to Henry Wood Erving and is illustrated in Wallace Nutting's, Furniture Treasury, no. 253. This chest has ball-and-claw feet unlike the pad feet on the Robb chest. The elongated knee returns relate directly to pieces made in Litchfield county (see Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Ann Y. Smith and Derin Bray, To Please Any Taste: Litchfield County Furniture & Furniture Makers, 1780-1830, (Litchfield, CT: Litchfield Historical Society, 2008), pp.43, fig. 13.