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High chest of drawers

Object number

RIF1966

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

76 × 40 × 19 1/2 in. (193.04 × 101.6 × 49.53 cm)

Date

1735–55

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Possibly made in Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Burl walnut veneer

Provenance

G.K.S. Bush, Inc., Washington, D. C., 1990

Associated names

G. K. S. Bush, Inc.

Notes

This high chest of drawers has a skirt outline and leg configuation similar to the dressing table RIF296, which has a history in the Wilson family of Barrington, Rhode Island.

See also

Bibliography

"G. K. S. Bush, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 138, no. 6 (December 1990): 1110, ill.