Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Stanley Weiss Collection, Providence, R.I. Click the image to enlarge	Chest of drawers
	Object number RIF5840
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Date 1800–1815
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany and light and dark wood inlay (primary); chestnut (back boards); ivory (pulls)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance The Stanley Weiss Collection, Providence, Rhode Island, 2010
	Associated names Stanley Weiss Collection
	Construction The oblong, bow-fronted, single-board top has a rounded, veneered edge and is secured to its conformingly shaped case, in part, by screw pockets in the upper of the two horizontal backboards. The upper backboard is fixed with rosehead nails to a batten beneath the case top. The case sides are routed to receive drawer supports. The backboards are chamfered at their sides to fit into grooves in the case sides. The backs of the rear legs are square-edge trapezoidal brackets. Notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd from photographs supplied by the Stanley Weiss Collection.
	Bibliography 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), 113n44, 439n5.

Chest of drawers