A Chippendale Carved And Red-Painted Chest Of Drawers

Connecticut, Late 18th Century

with three short drawers, the center drawer carved with rosette, over three graduated long drawers, shaped apron and feet.

Height 39 1/2 x width 37 1/2 x depth 18 1/8 inches.

Provenance:

The estate of James Abbe, Jr., Brookville, New York, 1999,

The Collection of Robert K. and Joy Lewis, Sag Harbor, New York.

presents well; retaining wonderful old paint with nice signs of patina including crackling and surface build-up; the top with some rings and darkened marks, and the edges with some scuffing commensurate with age and use; one long drawer and one short drawer with lip repair to drawer face, and another drawer with a loss to corner; a few scattered occasional patches to drawer face edges; with an unusual form of construction, the apron appears to be carved from a drawer face which has been affixed to the case- it was suggested that this piece may have originally been the upper portion to a Queen Anne high chest, and was retrofitted or altered in the late 18th century to conform to Federal styling; the bottom of the backboard has been more crudely cut away to mirror front apron; repaired breaks to both foot facings; brasses are later, with evidence of former screw holes; one pull missing bail handle, and two other pulls each missing washer to screw; center short drawer retaining lock

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She specializes in American furniture and decorative arts, Native American art, American folk art, and Pennsylvania furniture and decorative arts.
Cain joined Freeman's in 2001 as the company's first American furniture and decorative arts specialist. She began her career in American Decorative Arts as assistant curator at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1984 she became curator of costume at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1986, she relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts and switched from museum work when she joined the American Furniture and Decorative Art Department at Skinner Inc., Bolton and Boston, Massachusetts. Before leaving New England in 1997, she had the great pleasure of directing the cataloguing project of the Folk Art Collection of Nine Fletcher and Bertram K. Little at Cogswell’s Grant, Essex, Massachusetts for the Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England. Ms. Cain joined the cast of the popular PBS series Antiques Roadshow in Season 19.
Growing up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she was greatly influenced by the rich collections of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts held by Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. She notes her good fortune of working in our two great “attic states:” Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Each Commonwealth has tremendous inventory of historic material, great institutions, and citizens who treasure their inherited and collected items. Cain appears on the television Antiques Roadshow as an appraiser of decorative and folk arts.

American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts

A Chippendale Carved And Red-Painted Chest Of Drawers

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