Antique Federal Bird's Eye Maple Chest of Drawers / Dresser on Cannonball Feet

With our highest compliments Bay Colony Antiques takes the utmost pleasure in presenting for sale this magnificent and bold early American gentleman's chest of drawers. This chest was constructed in upper New England, likely Vermont or New Hampshire, sometime at the turn of 19th century circa 1800 - 1820. The patron who had commissioned this chest would have had some means in this era to afford to have a cabinetmaker construct such a commanding piece of furniture with only the finest native hardwoods as well as the boldest bird's eye maple solid wood stock and veneers available anywhere at the time. This old growth maple is significant to the treasury of early American design as the larger cities where the finest craftsman trained were dominated by exotic hardwoods such as mahogany with which the finest federal furniture was made. It is only in rare pockets of rural America at this time where bold and brilliant federal furniture constructed from centuries old maple trees have existed,