High chest of drawers

Unknown

1715–35 · Black walnut, maple, red cedar, white pine, chestnut, poplar · The American Wing

Contrasting light and dark wood banding creates a lively surface treatment on this high chest of drawers. Few chests with this type of herringbone-banded drawer border are known, and the exact place where this high chest was made has yet to be firmly decided, though one of its secondary woods, chestnut, suggests manufacture in eastern Connecticut or Rhode Island rather than New York, where some scholars have suggested.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1715–35

Medium

Black walnut, maple, red cedar, white pine, chestnut, poplar

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1950