Chest Of Drawers

1760-1780

Mahogany and chestnut chest-on-chest with ogee pediment, made by John Townsend. Four drawers in lower chest, three large and two small drawers in upper chest. Fluted bowl finials on fluted plinths, closed pediment, shaped panels below pediment, stop-fluted quarter columns on both chests, ogee bracket feet with continuous bracket running below the lower case molding. Descended in the Audley Clarke family of Newport. Closely related examples: RISD, 59.251; and coll. Of Robert Goelet (illus: "Ott, J. Brown House Loan Exhib." Catalogue, 1965, p. 83. "Island is My Nation", 1976, p. 336. See also "Antiques" (Feb. 1981), p. 336.

Wood

942.5 in

69.3