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From: Copake Auction Inc., September 12, 2009 Catalogued Americana Auction, Lot #67 Highboy, http://www.copakeauction.com (accessed September 21, 2009)
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High chest of drawers

Object number

RIF4542

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

66 1/2 × 38 × 19 3/4 in. (168.91 × 96.52 × 50.165 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island, or made in Connecticut
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Maple (primary); pine (secondary)

Provenance

Copake Auction Inc., Copake, New York, September 21, 2009, lot 67

Associated names

Copake Auction, Inc.

Bibliography

"Highboy," http://www.auctionflex.com/showlot.ap?co=9768&weventid=9570&weventitemid=3401745&wmaingroupid=0&wcatmastid=0&inventorytype=&mindate=19900101&maxdate=20501231&keyword=&lotsortorder=lotnumasc&pagenum=2&action=&lang=En (accessed September 21, 2009), lot 67.
"Copake Auction, Inc., advertisement," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (September 11, 2009): 96, ill.
"Primitive Portrait of Child Performs at Copake Auction," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (October 16, 2009): 4, ill.