Description:
Flat-top high chest with a history of ownership in the Dickinson family of Windham County, Vermont. The upper case features a molded top above four graduated drawers, and the lower case includes a long drawer over three short drawers, with a carved fan on the center short drawer. The lower front edge of the case features two drops with acorn-shaped finials, and the case sits on four cabriole legs. In his book, The Best the Country Affords, Kenneth Joel Zogry notes that the chest "may have been owned originally by Jane Campbell (ca. 1757-1834) and Abraham Dickinson (1758-1824), who were married about 1785. Determining the town of origin for the high case is difficult, since the family had ties in the three adjoining towns of Putney, Dummerston, and Westminster, all of which were prosperous during the last two decades of the eighteenth century and probably supported several cabinetmakers." Although believed to have been made in Vermont, the case is stylistically simliar to pieces produced in Massachusetts.
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