Tiger Maple High Chest of Drawers

Description:

Tiger Maple High Chest of Drawers, possibly Middlesex County, Massachusetts, c. 1760-80, the molded scrolled cresting with pinwheel terminals above a pinwheel-carved thumb-molded short drawer flanked by conforming drawers and four long drawers below, set into lower case of long drawer, central pinwheel-carved short drawer flanked by drawers, on valanced skirt joining cabriole legs ending in pad feet, old replaced brasses, refinished, (minor imperfections),ht. 80, wd. 38 3/4, dp. 20 in.
Estimate $2,500-3,500

patch to lower right short drawerfront, which has come unglued. one return has come off but is retained. crack in lower carved drawer.


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