CHIPPENDALE BLOCK-FRONT CHEST OF DRAWERS

Possibly Middletown or Wallingford (Meriden Parish) Circa 1790-1800

Primary wood: Cherry
Secondary wood: Pine

Height: 32 1/8 inches
Width: 36 3/4 inches
Depth: 20 3/8 inches

Provenance: William F. J. Boardman, Hartford, Connecticut; to his son, William Greenleaf Boardman, Hartford, Connecticut.

Reference: This chest is illustrated in Thomas P. and Alice K. Kugelman and Robert Lionetti, Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphat Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800, page 414, catalog number 190.

Item number 3910