John Welch
High Chest
1740-1750, with significant 20th-century additions
Physical Qualities
Mahogany, 95 1/8 x 41 1/4 x 22 1/8 in. (241.6 x 104.8 x 56.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection
Object Number
2012.283
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2012; Dorothy McIlvain Scott, Baltimore, by purchase; David Stockwell
Elder III, William Voss and Jayne E. Stokes. American Furniture 1680-1880: From the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Museum of Art, 1987, p.78-79, ill. 53.
Keno,Leigh, Joan Barzilay Freund, and Alan Miller, "The Very Pink of the Mode: Boston Georgian Chairs, Their Export, and Their Influence," "American Furniture," 1996, p. 282, figure 22.
