FINE FEDERAL BIRD’S EYE MAPLE AND MAHOGANY INLAID CHERRY
BOW-FRONT CHEST OF DRAWERS, circa 1810.
Attributed to the firm of Spooner and Fitts, Athol, Massachusetts.
 
This is one of the most elaborately inlaid examples of this form we have seen. The ovals are of crotch cherry with choice mahogany veneer surrounds; the drop panel is crotch birch; the rectangular panels are bird’s eye maple; the case is cherry. The oval brasses are original.
 
Interestingly, a nearly identical chest is in the White House Collection and appears in The Magazine Antiques, July 1979, page 120.
 
Height 42”, Width 44 ½”, Depth 24”.

 

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