Queen Anne-style Tiger Maple High Chest

Description:

Queen Anne-style Tiger Maple High Chest, in the New Hampshire manner, the top section with pinwheel-decorated and molded swan-neck pediment, flanked by carved flame finials on plinth bases, over a case with two short drawers and one fan- and pinwheel-carved frieze drawer over four thumbmolded graduated drawers, the bottom section with one long drawer over two short and one fan-carved drawer and an ovolo-shaped apron with acorn drop-finials, terminating on cabriole legs and pad feet, (imperfections),ht. 88 1/2, wd. 38 3/4, dp. 19 in.
Estimate $2,500-3,500

chipping to veneer, cracks to drawer fronts, one drop finial broken, separation to central finial plinth, two missing knee returns, wear and loss to the thumbmolded edges of the drawer as well as veneer loss at some points of the sides and drawer dividers


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