VERY FINE AND RARE QUEEN ANNE CARVED CHERRYWOOD HIGH CHEST OF DRAWERS, PROBABLY WETHERSFIELD, CONNECTICUT, POSSIBLY HARTFORD, CIRCA 1765

This wonderfully proportioned high chest of drawers relates directly to other high chests made in the Wethersfield, Connecticut area; most notably to the Porter-Belden high chest and en suite dressing table in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum (see Thomas P. Kugelman and Alice K. Kugelman with Robert Lionetti, Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and his Contemporaries, 1750-1800, (Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Society Museum: Distributed by University Press of New England, 2005), pp. 53-61).