$12,925
Queen Anne Cherry Carved High Chest, Connecticut, 18th century, the molded top overhangs the central pinwheel-carved drawer flanked by small drawers on three long drawers over the lower case of one long and three small drawers, including a central fan-carved example on a serpentine-shaped skirt joined to cabriole legs with pad feet, old refinish, (many brasses missing , other losses, restoration), ht. 70 1/4, wd. 34, dp. 19 1/2 in. Literature: Illustrated in the forthcoming book Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800, by THomas P. Kugelman and Alice K. Kugelman with Robert J. Lionetti (Connecticut Historical Society Museum, Hartford, Connecticut). Pictured in the article "A. Phelps Inn at North Colebrook," by Nancy Phelps Blum in The Magazine Antiques, March 1969, pp. 404-407.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2004-08-15
