Chest of Drawers
.1 (bottom): 37 1/4 × 40 7/8 × 22 3/8 inches (94.62 × 103.82 × 56.83 cm)
.2 (top): 48 × 39 1/2 × 21 1/8 inches (121.92 × 100.33 × 53.66 cm)
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Kittredge family, North Andover, MA, ca. 1760–1981 [1];
Purchased at "Fine Americana," Sotheby Parke Bernet, York Avenue, New York, September 26, 1981, lot 446, by dealer John Walton (d. 1985), Jewett City, CT, 1981-1982 [2];
Purchased from Walton by Richard Rosen, Belmont, MA, 1982–1991;
Purchased at his sale, "Important American Furniture and Related Decorative Arts," Sotheby’s New York, February 1, 1991, lot 719, by C.L. Prickett Antiques, Yardley, PA, 1991 [3];
Purchased from C.L. Prickett by Dr. Jeffrey M. (1947–2014) and Jean Piehler, Mission Hills, KS, 1991-2021;
Given by Jean Piehler to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2021.
NOTES:
[1] The chest of drawers descended within the family until its consignment to Sotheby Parke Bernet.
[2] John Walton was the proprietor of John Walton Inc., an antique dealer founded in 1930 in Greenwich, CT and then relocated to New York, 1950.
[3] C.L. Prickett Antiques was founded in 1962 in Yardley, Pennsylvania by Clarence Leon Prickett (1926–2017).
Rita Reif. "Auctions; Museum sale offers oddities." The New York Times, September 25, 1981, Section C, Page 27.
"Fine Americana," Sotheby Parke Bernet, York Avenue, New York, September 26, 1981, lot 446 (ill.)
"Important American Furniture and Related Decorative Arts," Sotheby’s New York, February 1, 1991, lot 719. (ill.)
(general):
Irving Whitall Lyon. The Colonial Furniture of New England: A Study of the Domestic Furniture in Use in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892): 73–108.
Margaret Burke Clunie. “Salem Federal Furniture,” M.A., thesis, University of Delaware, 1976.
Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates. American Furniture, 1620 to the Present (New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981): 139–142
Morrison H. Heckscher. American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. II: Late Colonial Period: The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985): 17–25, esp. 20–21; 231–248.
Kemble Widner II and Judy Anderson. “Furniture from Marblehead,” The Magazine Antiques 163, no. 5 (May 2003): 96–104.
