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High chest of drawers

Object number

RIF1974

Maker

Maker, formerly attributed to Job Townsend, Sr., 1699–1765
Maker, possibly by Christopher Townsend, 1701–1787
Maker Unknown

Dimensions

72 × 38 1/4 × 20 1/2 in. (182.88 × 97.155 × 52.07 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Nathan Liverant and Son, Colchester, Connecticut, 1980

Associated names

Nathan Liverant and Son

Bibliography

"Nathan Liverant and Son advertisement," Antiques 117, no. 5 (May 1980): 964, 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), 217n10.