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From: "Plaza Fine Art Auctioneers advertisement" Antiques 114 (November 1978): 721
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High chest of drawers

Object number

RIF807

Maker

Maker Unknown
Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785

Date

1755–1785

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary)

Provenance

By descent in the Powel family; by descent to Mrs. Sigourney B. Olney, Sr. (née Elizabeth Hare Powel, born 1889), Saint James, Long Island, New York; consigned to Plaza Art Galleries, Inc., New York, February 1, 1979

Associated names

Powel family
Elizabeth Hare Powel Campbell Olney
Plaza Fine Art Auctioneers

Bibliography

"Plaza Fine Art Auctioneers advertisement," Antiques 114, no. 5 (November 1978): 1241, ill.
Plaza Fine Art Auctioneers, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (February 1, 1979), 28, lot 217, ill.