CHIPPENDALE DRESSING TABLE Attributed to William Larkin Chester County, Pennsylvania Circa 1765 Primary Wood: Walnut Secondary Woods: Tulip Poplar, Chestnut
PAINT DECORATED BOX WITH DRAWER Attributed to Robert Crosman (1707--1799) Taunton, Massachusetts Circa 1727 Primary Wood: White Pine; Secondary Wood: White Pine Height: 10 inches Width: 16 inches Depth: 9 inches
Height: 29 1/2 inches Width: 36 inches Depth: 21 3/4 inches
Reference: For the Larkin attribution please see Wendy A. Cooper, Paint, Pattern and People , plate XV.
Reference: The chest is listed in the seminal work on Crosman chests by Esther Stevens Brazer in The Magazine Antiques, April 1933 , pages 135-138. For more current scholarship on Crosman chests, please see the article in American Furniture 2018 entitled "Revisiting Taunton: Robert Crosman, Esther Stevens Brazer, and the Changing Interpretations of Taunton Chests", pages 106-169, by Emelie Gevalt. Gevalt’s catalog of Crosman’s work includes this example, number 26, and a nearly identical box, number 25, from the collection of Nina Fletcher Little that was donated to Historic New England (1991.312).
Provenance: Homer F. Whittemore, Weston, Massachusetts (c. 1879-1961). 5
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