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Property from a Private Upstate New York Collection

A Chippendale Block-Front Chest-On-Chest, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1775

Auction Closed

January 25, 06:34 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

figured mahogany

height 88 ¼ in. by width 42 in. by depth 22 ¼ in.


appears to retain original brass hardware and finials.


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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, sale 5968, lot 1231;

Wayne Pratt American Antiques, Woodbury, Connecticut;

Private Collector;

Sotheby's New York, Important Americana Including American Stoneware Assembled by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hochberg, January 21, 2011, sale 8710, lot 323.

Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, (New York: Macmillan, 1928), no. 312;

Wayne Pratt American Antiques advertisement, Magazine Antiques (January 1991).