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Outstanding Chippendale Cherry Bonnet-Top Chest-on-Chest
Fine Chippendale Carved Cherry Bonnet-Top Chest-on-Chest having a broken arch top centered by a shaped plinth surmounted by a flame and urn-turned finial flanked by two similarly turned finials on fluted plinths, above three short drawers, the center with a carved fan, over four graduated long drawers, all flanked by fluted pilasters headed by pulvinated capitals, original brasses; all over a lower case with four long graduated drawers, and straight bracket feet.
In an outstanding state of preservation being completely original and retaining a fine old surface and mellow patina.
Concord, Massachusetts, circa 1780.
Height 84”, width 41 ½”, depth 22 ¼”.
Provenance: According to family tradition: Abigail Howe Thompson; Aroline Thompson Hunt; Nina Hunt Fenno; Mildred Fenno Kepler; Pauline Kepler Stone.
Reference: A nearly identical chest-on-chest is part of the collection at Winterthur and is pictured in New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods by Richards and Evans, fig. 194, and also in American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods by Joseph Downs, no. 182.
Item 4896