Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991.222 Click the image to enlarge	Chest of drawers
	Object number RIF1657
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 36 � 42 � 24 in. (91.44 � 106.68 � 60.96 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location The Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Geography Probably made in Massachusetts, or possibly made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); pine (secondary)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance By descent in the Winsor, Taylor, Bishop, and Mowry families, Providence, Rhode Island. Ginsburg and Levy, New York, 1955. Benjamin Ginsburg Antiquary, New York, 1978. Benjamin Ginsburg (1904–1994) and Cora Kling Ginsburg (1910–2002), New York; given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991
	Associated names Winsor family Taylor family Bishop family Mowry family Ginsburg and Levy, Inc. Benjamin Ginsburg Cora Kling Ginsburg
	Notes The swept back side talons on the feet and the central drop on the skirt would seem to indicate a Massachusetts origin, but the Providence history of this chest of drawers and the presence of yellow poplar in a related example (RIF1658) have sometimes led to Rhode Island attributions of origin for chests of this type.
	See also RIF1656 RIF1658
	Bibliography "Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 67, no. 1 (January 1955): 15, ill. Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 78–79, no. 53, ill. "Benjamin Ginsburg Antiquary advertisement," Antiques 113, no. 4 (April 1978): 697, ill.