Boston, 1670-1700, probably Mason-Messenger Shop tradition, a rare chest incorporating red cedar and other tropical exotics with oak and pine, split two case construction, five drawers, paneled drawer facings with cedar and possibly rosewood panels turned and ebonized feet, unusual construction with inset veneer panels, ebonized white pine side panels, 35-1/2 x 39 x 23-1/2 in.

Provenance: Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

Illustrated: Follansbee and Trent, "Reassessing the London-Style Joinery and Turning of Seventeenth-Century Boston", in American Furniture, 2010, figure 40, page 227. As Follansbee and Trent note, this chest is distinguished by having contrasting plaques made of rosewood or some other dense, dark tropical hardwood. The plaques are set in recesses, cut in the front stiles and drawer fronts.

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