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High chest of drawers

Object number

RIF2797

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

86 1/2 × 40 × 20 3/4 in. (219.71 × 101.6 × 52.705 cm)

Date

1750–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Possibly made in Rhode Island, Possibly made in Bristol, Rhode Island
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Medium

Walnut with light wood inlay (primary)

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, January 28–29 and 31, 1987, lot 1313

Associated names

Sotheby's

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (January 28–29, 31, 1987), lot 1313, 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), 237, 239n2, no. 38–39, fig. 3.