THE AMES - FROTHINGHAM FAMILY QUEEN ANNE HIGH CHEST OF DRAWERS With carving attributed to John Welch Boston Circa 1750
Primary Wood: Walnut Secondary Wood: White Pine
Height: 88 inches Width: 43 1/4 inches Depth: 22 3/4 inches
THE HOUSTON FAMILY CHIPPENDALE HIGH CHEST OF DRAWERS Pennsylvania, possibly Lancaster Circa 1770
The high chest has never been out of the family of the original owner and remains in the finest condition. The carved drawers are remarkable expressions of Welch's work and recall the spandrels of the clock now in the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago. Reference: For related carving on an important group of Boston 18th Century furniture please see Alan Miller, "Roman Gusto in New England: An Eighteenth Century Boston Furniture Designer and His Shop" in American Furniture, 1993.
Primary Wood: Walnut Secondary Woods: Yellow Pine, Tulip Poplar, Atlantic White Cedar
Heigh: 104 inches Width: 44 1/2 inches Depth: 25 inches
Reference: For other similarly decorated high chest of drawers please see one at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kirtley, American Furniture 1650-1840, Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art , entry 51, pages 86-7; and one at Yale, see Gerald Ward, American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and other Collections at Yale University , entries116 and 147. Provenance: Johannes (John) Bushong Sr. (1750-1831) and wife Eve Dorothea Eckman (1755-1819); to son Henry Bushong (1783-1870) and his first wife Sarah Gilbert (1787-1831): to daughter Lydia Bushong (1807-1885) and husband Abraham Rakestraw (1799-1874); to daughter Esther Rakestraw (1843-1929) and husband Joseph Willis Houston (1834-1920); to brother Robert John Houston (1832-1910) and wife Margaret Wiley (1840-1901); to Mrs. Margaret Jean Wiley Smith, daughter of William Martin Wiley and Hannah Jane Dull and wife of Judge Eugene G. Smith (1853-1928) married in Lancaster, PA. in 1882.
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