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High chest of drawers

Object number

RIF4703

Maker

Maker Unknown
Maker, formerly attributed to Christopher Townsend, Jr., 1738–1809

Dimensions

70 × 38 × 20 in. (177.8 × 96.52 × 50.8 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Maple (primary); chestnut (secondary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Peter H. Tillou Fine Arts, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1987

Associated names

Peter H. Tillou Fine Arts

Bibliography

"Peter H. Tillou Fine Arts advertisement," Antiques 132, no. 1 (July 1987): 84, ill.