- Queen Anne Tiger Maple High Chest of Drawers, Rhode Island, dated 1749, the upper section with
thumbmolded drawers set into the base by a deep two-part midmolding, the lower dovetailed case of
thumbmolded drawers on “removable” cabriole legs with arris knees continuing to slipper feet, replaced 18th
century brasses, refinished, (minor imperfections), ht. 69 1/2, lower case wd. 39, dp. 21; offered together
with a pen and ink calligraphic family record of the births and marriages of the John Clapp family of Warwick,
Rhode Island, inscribed “James Pollard’s Scriptit,” and dated “July 29, AD 1796,” in original black and gilt
frame bearing the label of Peter Grinnell & Son, Providence, sight size 14 1/2 x 11 1/2; and a small framed
needlework sampler by Mercy Stafford Waterman Clapp, aged nine years, 1830, sight size 8 x 9 in.
Provenance: Highboy descended in the family of John Waterman (1691-1751) and Mercy Stafford Waterman
of Warwick, Rhode Island; Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques, Colchester, Connecticut, 1991; acquired by
the present owners from the preceding.
$15,000-25,
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