Connecticut River Valley
Having a rectangular top with shaped sides and front above a case with three short thumb-molded drawers, the central drawer is fan-carved and bares s faint inscription in chalk on the underside, the scalloped apron with incurvate center continuing to angular cabriole legs ending in high pad feet. [The 1980 Sotheby’s Garbisch catalog -lot 767], attributes to Eliphalet Chapin, a celebrated cabinet maker of East Windsor, Connecticut. Only a very few of these shaped top lowboys have been found. Further, the shaping of this top is the original and has not been cut over.
Item Date: Circa 1770
Measurement: Height: 27.25"; Top: 33" x 19.5"
Material: Cherry, and white pine
Item Condition: Very good, we had the top refastened
Reference: For related dressing tables from this group, see Fales, the Furniture of Historic Deerfield, New York, 1976, page 219, No. 444 and 445, and Connecticut Furniture, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1967, Exhibition Catalog, page 103, No. 180
Provenance: Teina Baumstone, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, The Garbisch Collection; Sotheby’s – Important Americana, 17 & 20 January 2019.
SOLD
SKU 1509-8
For More Information, Please Contact David Hillier at 978-597-8084 or email drh@aaawt.com.
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