Photo: Courtesy private collection; photo by Christopher Gardner
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Chest of drawers |
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Object numberRIF1448 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions33 3/4 × 38 × 19 1/2 in. (85.73 × 96.52 × 49.53 cm) |
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Date177080 |
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Current locationPrivate Collection |
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GeographyProbably made in New London, Connecticut(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); white pine (secondary) |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceGuy Richards (1747-1825), New London, Connecticut; Peter Richards (1778-1863), New London, Connecticut; Wolcott Richards (1803-1871), Cincinnati; Charles Augustus Lewis Richards (1830-1914), Providence, Rhode Island; Dorothy Keach (1877-1980); Dorothy Wiley (1912-2004); consigned to Bonhams and Butterfields, San Francisco, June 7, 2004; sold to Leigh Keno, New York; sold to private collection |
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Associated namesGuy RichardsBonhams and Butterfields Leigh Keno American Antiques Peter Richards Wolcott Richards Charles Augustus Lewis Richards Dorothy Keach Dorothy Wiley |
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NotesThis chest is related to RIF2899 and 1370. |
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See also |
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Bibliography"Bonhams and Butterfields to Offer Circa 1780 American Chest," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (May 14, 2004): 29, ill.""$1.4 Million Chest at Bonhams and Butterfields"," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (June 11, 2004): 82, ill. "Bonhams and Butterfields advertisement," Antiques 166, no. 3 (September 2004): 44. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 4243, fig. 6. |