Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Historic New England, 1991.1292 Click the image to enlarge	High chest of drawers
	Object number RIF2451
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 61 1/4 � 40 � 22 3/4 in. (155.575 � 101.6 � 57.785 cm)
	Date 1700–1720
	Current location Historic New England (www.historicnewengland.com), formerly Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
	Geography Possibly made in Rhode Island, Owned in Westport, Massachusetts (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple, maple veneer (primary, on frame); pine (secondary, top and sides of drawers, bottom underneath, back)
	Marks Unknown
	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
	Provenance By 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 (1903–1993), Brookline, Massachusetts; bequeathed by Nina Fletcher Little (1903–1993) and her husband, Bertram K. Little (1899–1993), to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England), Boston, 1991
	Associated names Howland Family Mrs. Joseph Howland Nina Fletcher Little Bertram K. Little
	Notes Southeast chamber 03/04/97
	Bibliography Nina 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, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 172–173, 174n2, fig. 2.