Chippendale Cherry High Chest of Drawers, Connecticut River Valley, late 18th century.

Chippendale Cherry High Chest of Drawers, Connecticut River Valley, late 18th century. The top case with coved and dentil-molded cornice rising steeply to form a broken pediment with volutes terminating in low-relief carved pinwheels, centering a finely reeded plinth with shell pendant fitted above with carved thistle finial, the flame finials at sides mounted on reeded plinths crowning capitals projecting from the cornice and surmounting conforming stop-fluted pilasters with shell ends applied to the stiles, containing row of tympanum drawers with conforming drawers flanking a central drawer with blocked, carved, and incised shell motif, over four graduated thumb-molded drawers, enclosed at the bottom and resting in conforming cavetto molding applied to frame of lower case, constructed of shaped apron boards joined to stiles continuing to form slender cabriole legs on pad feet, their molded returns replaced or reattached with screws, (repairs to drawers, upper right drawer is replaced, refinished), including finial, 104cm wide, 53cm deep, 213cm high (41 1/4in wide, 21 1/2in deep, 84in high). Footnotes: Provenance Estate Auction, Ingraham & Co., Coventry, Connecticut, 26 October 2016. Illustrated in Antiques and the Arts Weekly (28 October 2016), p. 80. Literature A Colchester style highboy with similar rosettes, blocked shell carving with horizontal fluting and incised embellishments, flat backboard and notched cutouts to bonnet, and inverted shell moldings on reeded pilasters, is in the collection of the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, acc. no. 1958.44.1, gift of Frederick K. and Margaret R. Barbour. See Thomas P. and Alice K. Kugelman, Connecticut Valley Furniture (Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society Museum, 2005), cat. no. 122. Note Back of central tympanum drawer inscribed 'Jenks / Holyoke / Mass' in chalk. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing