CHIPPENDALE BONNET TOP DESK AND BOOKCASE Eastern Connecticut Circa 1765 Primary Wood: Cherry, Secondary Woods: White Pine, Cherry
Height: 97 inches, Width: 38 inches, Depth: 20 inches
Provenance: Soames Family, Lowell, MA; Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., New York; Dr. Samuel J. Phillips, NY; John Walton, Inc., Connecticut Reference: A similar desk in the Winterthur collection appears in Nancy Evans and Nancy Richards, New England Furniture at Winterthur , entry 203, pages 426-28 and back cover. A desk with a similar interior appears in Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury , #630.
CHIPPENDALE CARVED HIGH CHEST OF DRAWERS New York Circa 1770 Signed and made by R (Robert) Carter Primary Wood: Mahogany, Secondary Woods: Tulip Poplar, White Pine Height: 73 1 / 2 inches, Width: 41 1 / 2 inches, Depth: 21 1 / 2 inches Provenance: Descended in the Townsend Family of Long Island; Bernard and S. Dean Levy, New York; Private Collection, New York References: This high chest appears in Dean Failey, Long Island is My Nation, The Decorative Arts & Craftsmen, 1640-1830 , No. 142, pg 123; Johnathan Fairbanks and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates, American Furniture 1620 to the Present, pg. 113. The “removable leg” construction appears on other New York case pieces including a high chest base made for the Van Rensselaer family, see Roderic H. Blackburn, Cherry Hill - The History of the Van Rensselaer Family, plate 47 B. Robert Carter was a well respected cabinetmaker who was among the leaders of his trade in the Great Procession of 1788, celebrating the ratification of the Constitution. He was Thomas Burling’s brother-in-law and occasional business partner.
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