Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy private collection; photo by Christopher Gardner Click the image to enlarge	Chest of drawers
	Object number RIF1448
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 33 3/4 � 38 � 19 1/2 in. (85.73 � 96.52 � 49.53 cm)
	Date 1770–80
	Current location Private Collection
	Geography Probably made in New London, Connecticut (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); white pine (secondary)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance Guy 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
	Associated names Guy Richards Peter Richards Wolcott Richards Charles Augustus Lewis Richards Dorothy Keach Dorothy Wiley Bonhams and Butterfields Leigh Keno American Antiques
	Notes This chest is related to RIF2899 and 1370.
	See also RIF8 RIF151 RIF249 RIF746 RIF1370 RIF1428 RIF1702 RIF1812 RIF2107 RIF2821 RIF2822 RIF2824 RIF2899 RIF3960 RIF4134
	Bibliography ""$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. "Bonhams and Butterfields to Offer Circa 1780 American Chest," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (May 14, 2004): 29, ill. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 42–43, fig. 6.