circa 1830, maple and pine, dark brown grain painted surface, top with stenciled grapevine motif, green painted shutter panels to sides and back, two drawers, underside inscribed with large "B", 30-1/2 x 18-1/2 x 17-1/4 in.
Provenance: Descended in the family of Nathaniel and Abigail (Chesley) Swasey, thence to Ambrose Swasey (1846-1937), son; Sumpter Priddy, Alexandria, Virginia, February 1995 (accompanied by copy of receipt for $5,400); From the Collection of Elbert H. Parsons, Jr., Huntsville, Alabama
Literature: Published in Sumpter Priddy, American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts 1790-1840 (Chipstone Foundation and the Milwaukee Art Museum, 2004), p. 113, figs. 187 and 188.
Note: For a discussion on Ambrose Swasey, see Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 1 & 2, 1944, pp. 642-43 (accompanied by a copy of reference).
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Descended in the family of Nathaniel and Abigail (Chesley) Swasey, thence to Ambrose Swasey (1846-1937), son; Sumpter Priddy, Alexandria, Virginia, February 1995 (accompanied by copy of receipt for $5,400); From the Collection of Elbert H. Parsons, Jr., Huntsville, Alabama
good integrity and in a fine state of preservation, original brasses, paint with some distress, crackle, and minor loss mainly to yellow trim; top with shrinkage split, one drawer previously with dividers, holes to feet underside from lathe or missing casters
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