Live Auction 2200Important American Furniture, Folk Art & Prints
A Chippendale Paint-Decorated Poplar Dower Chest
Lot 67 Property from a Private American Collection 

A Chippendale Paint-Decorated Poplar Dower Chest

BERKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1790

Closed30 September 2009

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USD 2,500

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A Chippendale Paint-Decorated Poplar Dower Chest
Berks County, Pennsylvania, circa 1790
21 in. high, 45 in. wide, 24 in. deep

Joe Kindig, Jr. & Son, York, Pennsylvania, 1980

Specialist note

For a similar chest from Berks County with these decorative details see the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Beatrice B. Garvan, The Pennsylvania German Collection (Philadelphia, 1982), fig. 3, p. 19).