Connecticut Eighteenth Century Two-Drawer Blanket Chest, Original Paint - Antique Associated At West Townsend

Connecticut Eighteenth Century Two-Drawer Blanket Chest, Original Paint

Featuring a dramatic double-scrolled or ogee-scalloped apron with little “ears” or returns flanking the center profile… the side feet show a vestigial “ball-foot” silhouette.

Connecticut Eighteenth Century Two-Drawer Blanket Chest, Original Paint

Lift-top with bold applied, and projecting cove molding above a case containing two false upper drawers disguising the deep blanket compartment behind and two working drawers below…all with overhanging thumbmolded edges. The base featuring early style robust molding is raised on cutout [ball foot silhouette] feet joining an outstanding dramatic Queen Anne / late-Baroque scalloped apron.

Item Date: 1785-1795

Measurement: Height: 42.5"; width: 35"; depth: 18"

Material: White pine

Item Condition: Very good

Literature: Nearly identical aprons appear on a small, well-documented group of Wethersfield-area high chests and dressing tables illustrated in "• Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Hoadley, 1968)" and "• Connecticut Valley Furniture – Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries 1750-1800 by Kugelman & Kugelman (2005)" among other scholarly books.

Price: $4,250

SKU 1255-52

For More Information, Please Contact David Hillier at 978-597-8084 or email drh@aaawt.com.

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