Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy private collection; photo by Christopher Gardner Click the image to enlarge	High chest of drawers
	Object number RIF81
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 63 � 33 7/8 � 22 1/2 in. (160.02 � 86.043 � 57.15 cm)
	Date 1700–1720
	Current location Private collection
	Geography Made in Kingstown, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple (primary); pine, possibily yellow pine (drawer linings, top, backing for drawer dividers, backboards)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance John Wightman (1674–1750), Kingstown, Rhode Island; by descent to Rev. James Wightman (1709–1791); by descent to Samuel Wightman (1736–1826); by descent to Mary Wightman (1783–1860); by descent to Josiah Bullock Wightman (1806–1925); by descent to Mary Frances Wightman (1830–1925); by descent to Harriet Waldron Frost (1862–1953); by descent to Rufus S. Frost (1893–1974); by descent to Mary Hale. Skinner, Inc., Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts (sale held Bolton), February 27, 2000; sold to Anthony S. Wernecke, Inc., Pond Eddy, New York; sold to Clifford Bonney, Virginia and Massachusetts; sold to Antique Associations of West Townsend, Massachusetts; sold to a private collection
	Associated names John Wightman Reverend James Wightman Samuel Wightman Mary Wightman Josiah Bullock Wightman Mary Frances Wightman Harriet Waldron Frost Rufus S. Frost Mary Hale Skinner, Inc. Anthony Werneke, Inc. Mr. Clifford Bonney Antique Associates at West Townsend, Inc., Massachusetts
	Bibliography Skinner, Inc., Bolton, Mass., American Furniture and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (February 27, 2000), 33, lot 102, ill. "Skinner, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 157, no. 2 (February 2000): 260, ill. "Anthony S. Werneke, Inc., advertisement," Antiques and Fine Art (Winter 2001): 105, 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), 20–21, fig. 9.