Early 19th Century Antique Federal Period Mahogany Chest of Drawers / Dresser
With our highest compliments & utmost honors, Bay Colony Antiques is extremely proud to offer for sale this extraordinary early 19th century Antique Federal period Mahogany chest of drawers / dresser. We’ve owned this for a couple of months and wanted to solidify an attribution before offering this for sale but we’ve exhausted both our private research material and our museum databases. We're confident this is a singular object, and we can’t recall ever seeing a variation of the French Foot quite like this. We strongly believe this was made in Western Massachusetts, either in Springfield, or the Greenfield / Deerfield area. Our largest warehouse is located in Springfield and the furniture from the area is criminally under appreciated. William Lloyd & Pelatiah Bliss were the most successful cabinet makers in Springfield during the period, yet there are only a handful of labeled or signed examples from both cabinet makers. Most furniture wasn’t labeled or signed, and even if they