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From: "John S. Walton Inc. advertisement," Antiques 55 (February 1949): 89
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High chest of drawers

Object number

RIF1946

Maker

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

Dimensions

Height: 86 in. (218.44 cm)

Date

1760–80

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary)

Provenance

Perez Richmond (1729–1800), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent in the Richmond family; sold to John S. Walton, Greenwich, Connecticut, by 1949

Associated names

Perez Richmond
John S. Walton, Inc.

Related objects

Bibliography

"John S. Walton Antiques, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 55, no. 8 (February 1949): 89, ill.
Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 197.