



Chest of drawers, 1755–90
Philadelphia
Mahogany, tulip poplar, yellow pine
Philadelphia
Mahogany, tulip poplar, yellow pine
99 x 45 1/2 x 25 in. (251.5 x 115.6 x 63.5 cm)
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1918 (18.110.6)
Immigrant craftsmen in Philadelphia produced the most elaborate and richly carved of all colonial American furniture. This high chest demonstrates how Philadelphia artisans updated traditional Baroque forms by adding carved Rococo-style ornament.







