Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Christie's, New York Click the image to enlarge	High chest of drawers
	Object number RIF339
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 70 3/4 � 41 � 20 3/4 in. (179.7 � 104.1 � 52.7 cm)
	Date 1760–1780
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); chestnut (bottom board, top board, batten, blocks between bottom board and front rail in upper case); yellow poplar (back boards upper and lower case, drawer linings in lower case; backing for drawer dividers); pine (backing of stile in upper case, drawer supports, back and center support for two small drawers in upper case, drawer linings in upper case)
	Provenance John S. Walton, New York, 1951; sold in 1954 to Ralph E. Carptenter, Jr., Scarsdale, New York, and later Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his wife Roberta L. Carpenter (1938–2019), Newport, Rhode Island; consigned to Christie's, New York, January 24, 2020, lot 323. Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York, 2020
	Associated names John S. Walton, Inc. Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr. Roberta L. Carpenter Christie's Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc.
	Bibliography "Silver Jublilee Exhibitors," Antiques 60, no. 4 (October 1951): 262. Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "Mowbra Hall and a Collection of Period Rooms: Part 2," Connoisseur (August 1972): 286, fig. 5. Laura Beach, "The Past Is Present in Newport: A Couple's Lifelong Love of Antiques," Antiques and Fine Art 6, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 124, ill. Christie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver, sale cat. (January 24, 2020), 102–3, lot 323, ill.