Sale 5980
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
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Estimate$10,000 – $20,000
The upper case with arched top, closed pediment, fluted finial supports, carved and turned finials, two short drawers fitted with Quaker locks, over three long drawers, fluted quarter columns, and waist molding, the lower case with four graduated drawers, stop-fluted quarter columns, molded base, shaped ogee feet.
H: 85 in. W: 44 in. D: 22 in.Note
For a related chest-on-chest and information on Ebenezer Allen, Jr. and Cornelius Allen of New Bedford, Massachusetts see, Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan & Jack O'Brien, Harbor & Home Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts 1710-1850 (2009), plate 62, pp.181-183.
Provenance
From the Estate of David Ford, Sr.
Collection of Charles R. Morson, Jr., New York antique dealer (1871-1929), Illustrated, Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America (second edition, 1926), fig. XX, p. 352.