image of object
Photo: Courtesy Rhode Island Furniture Archive
Click the image to enlarge

Chest of drawers

Object number

RIF6

Maker

Maker Reuben Burdon, worked 1816 - 1838

Dimensions

40 5/8 × 23 1/2 in. (103.19 × 59.69 cm)

Date

1816

Current location

Private collection

Geography

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

Medium

Cherry and mahogany veneer

Marks

"Made 1816" / "Reuben Burdon" in chalk on one of the drawer bottoms

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Private collection

Construction

According to Roland Hammond, who appraised the chest in 1988, the splashboard is a later addition.