ANTIQUE CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS BLOCK-FRONT CHEST OF DRAWERS

With our absolute highest compliments Bay Colony Antiques takes the utmost pleasure in offering this exceptional early 19th century chest of drawers. We have had the privilege of owning numerous block-front formed chests throughout the past few generations of collecting and consider this particular example among the finest that we have ever offered. This chest is the product of a master cabinetmaker working in the city of Boston or somewhere else throughout Massachusetts. The traditional form of the block-front chest in this format has been produced since the mid-18th century, first in Boston and then those trained cabinetmakers brought the influence into New York and Philadelphia and then further south towards the end of the century. Throughout the 1970's and 1980's major institutions began driving up the prices of the first generation of these style of chests with the greatest amounts paid for early 1760's examples known to be made in the surrounding areas of Boston up to the North