Federal Mahogany and Mahogany Veneer Swell-front Chest of Drawers, Erastus Grant (1774-1865), We...

Federal Mahogany and Mahogany Veneer Swell-front Chest of Drawers, Erastus Grant (1774-1865), Westfield, Massachusetts, 1804. Single board top with elliptic front veneered at edge and returns, containing four cockbead-molded graduated drawers, the second inscribed 'E. Grant Jan\y 10 1804 / Westfield,' the case fitted with crossband-veneered stiles and partial dustboards dividing the drawers, closed with horizontal boards at back and bottom, all above string-inlaid and veneered scalloped apron raised on French feet, retaining original Great Seal of United States brasses marked 'HJ' for Hands & Jenkins, Birmingham, England, 101cm wide, 58cm deep, 88cm high (40in wide, 23in deep, 35 3/4in high). Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. Elizabeth S. Mankin, Kent, Connecticut, 29 September 1995. Literature A contemporaneous chest of drawers labeled by Grant, with similar inlay on a serpentine French-foot base, is in the collection of Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts (acc. HD 67.120). See Dean A. Fales, Jr., The Furniture of Historic Deerfield (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1976), fig. 407, p. 198. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing