An American Cherry Highboy,
NEW ENGLAND, 18TH CENTURY WITH ALTERATION,
in two parts, the upper case having a broken arch pediment with flaming urn finials above an arrangement of seven drawers, the upper central drawer fronted by a carved fan, the lower case with a long drawer above short drawers flanking a fan carved drawer over pendant finials, raised on cabriole legs ending in pad feet.
Height 87 3/4 x width 39 x depth 21 1/2 inches.

Property from the Collection of Jonathan Hubbard, Evanston, Illinois

Footnote:
Jonathan Hubbard inherited the present lot from his cousin Rosamond Thaxter (1895-1989), a philanthropist, lecturer and writer who resided in Kittery Point, Maine. Miss Thaxter had deep roots in New England history, with ancestors prominent in business and politics. Her paternal grandmother, Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894), was a popular poet, painter and writer whose book My Island Garden is a classic in American gardening. It is thought that this highboy was inherited by Miss Thaxter from her mother, Mary Gertrude Stoddard Thaxter (1858-1951).