Photo: Courtesy Historic New England, 1991.1292
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High chest of drawers |
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Object numberRIF2451 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions61 1/4 × 40 × 22 3/4 in. (155.575 × 101.6 × 57.785 cm) |
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Date17001720 |
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Current locationHistoric New England (www.historicnewengland.com), formerly Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities |
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GeographyPossibly made in Rhode Island, Owned in Westport, Massachusetts(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple, maple veneer (primary, on frame); pine (secondary, top and sides of drawers, bottom underneath, back) |
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MarksUnknown |
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Inscriptions"Bought from Mrs. Joseph / Howland, Westport, Mass (92 years old) Highboy / descended in her hus- / band's family.," typed by Nina Fletcher Little, on jelly label on inside left of bottom chest drawer; "Howland," in chalk, on a drawer in lower case |
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ProvenanceBy descent in the family of Joseph Howland, Westport, Massachusetts; by descent to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Howland, Westport; sold by Mrs. Joseph Howland to Roland B. Hammond, North Andover, Massachusetts, 1956; sold to Nina Fletcher Little (19031993), Brookline, Massachusetts; bequeathed by Nina Fletcher Little (19031993) and her husband, Bertram K. Little (18991993), to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England), Boston, 1991 |
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Associated namesHowland FamilyMrs. Joseph Howland Nina Fletcher Little Bertram K. Little |
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NotesSoutheast chamber 03/04/97 |
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BibliographyNina Fletcher Little, Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts (Boston: Historic New England (www.historicnewengland.com), formerly Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1998), 193, fig. 254.Alice Winchester, "Living with Antiques: Cogswell's Grant, the Essex County Home of Mr. and Mrs. Bertram K. Little," Antiques 95, no. 2 (February 1969): 251, ill. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 172173, 174n2, fig. 2. |