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double chest
signed by Jonathan shoemaker
​of philadelphia

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Philadelphia
Mahogany, poplar, white cedar
Circa 1765-1766
H: 97”; W: 44”; D: 23”
 
Signed on the top board of the base section, Jonathan Shoemaker (1726-1793). This mahogany double chest has an elaborate shell and foliate C-scroll carved central drawer, fluted corner columns and carved finials and rosettes.
 
This double chest is the only surviving signed example of Jonathan Shoemaker’s work.  Shoemaker was a third generation woodworker, beginning with immigrant Jacob, Sr. who moved to Philadelphia circa 1715 from Germantown. In 1722 he willed his “Tools belonging to the Trades of Turning and Wheel Making” to his son, Jacob, Jr. His son ,Jonathan, the maker of this chest, was working as a joiner by 1750 and two years later had a shop on the west side of Second Street. In 1767 he moved to Third Street near Arch.
 
A drawing of this double chest survives from Shoemaker’s apprentice, Samuel Mickle (1746-1830) from his book of drawings dated 1765. There can be no doubt that the drawing references this chest as the measurements and form are identical. 
 
Literature: Minardi, “Philadelphia Furniture, and the Pennsylvania Germans”, American Furniture 2013, figs 58 and 59; pp.231-232.
 
Condition: Original brass. Partial restoration to finials. Small replacements to carved streamers on cartouche. 3” of the front and side foot facings on the front feet are replaced. 
 
 


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  • About
  • Inventory
    • New Items >
      • View of New Brighton, Pennsylvania
      • Philadelphia Regulator Tall Case Clock Signed on the dial by Thomas Voight, with works by John Childs
      • Tall Case Clock by Valentine Urtelig
      • Monumental Astronomical Regulator Clock from Chicago Store of J.S. Townsend
      • Commedia Dell'Arte
      • Rock Pool in Spring
      • The Port of Livorno
      • Mexican American War Snuff Gold Snuff Box
      • Portrait of the Artist, Benjamin West
      • The Snowden Family Armchair
    • Furniture >
      • Double Chest Signed by Jonathan Shoemaker
      • Blocked End Reverse Serpentine Chest of Drawers
      • Paint Decorated Table
      • Carved, Inlaid and Painted Flag Table
      • Oley Valley Paint Decorated Chest of Drawers
      • Simon Cameron's Armchair
      • Dressing Table, Southeastern Pennsylvania, circa 1740-1750
      • Philadelphia Dressing Table, circa 1770
    • Clocks >
      • Gold Pocket Watch by Thomas Tompion of London, made for the Mifflin family
      • Isaac Jackson Tall Case Clock
      • Tall Case Clock by John Fisher, York Town
      • Mitchell and Vance Newel Post Clock
      • Barometer with Clock
      • Tall Case Clock by Daniel Rose
      • Important Alexandria, Virginia Tall Case Clock Clock
      • Inlaid Clock From New Jersey
      • Automaton Organ Clock
      • Tall Case Clock by Daniel Rose
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      • Tall Case Clock by Lebbeus Dodd
      • Exhibition Knife
      • Tall Case Clock by Hugh Bigham
      • Gold Pocket Watch With a Portrait Miniature of George Washington
    • Paintings and Prints >
      • "Eddy" 1828 Map of New York
      • Mermaid Fraktur from Lebanon Township
      • Pair of Portraits from the Moore-Robinson family of Virginia
      • Pen and Ink Drawing of the Union Oil Works, Rome, NY
      • At River's Bend
      • A Pair of Portraits by Francis Cezeron
      • Sponge Market, Nassau
      • Portrait of A Doylestown Ohio Farm
      • Country Residence of H.G. Moser, Mechanicsburg
      • Watercolors of the Four Seasons
      • Portrait of a Steamship
      • The Knowles, Taylor and Knowles Pottery Buildings
      • Chicago Zouaves
      • Portrait of a Hound, circa 1840
      • American Scenery: The Country House
      • Settlement of Immigrants in Missouri
      • Missouri Rustic Landscape by Edward Sachse
      • Missouri Village Scene
      • Still Life with Peaches, William Mason Brown
    • Folk Art >
      • Paint Decorated Sewing Box
      • Carved and Painted Urn
      • 1830 Paint Decorated Bedstead
    • Decorative Arts >
      • Carved and Gilded Eagle
      • Miniature Copper Kettle
      • Rare 1849 Nautical Presentation Trumpet1853 Newark, New Jersey Presentation Trumpet
      • 1853 Newark, New Jersey Presentation Trumpet
      • 1854 Savannah Georgia Presentation Trumpet
      • 1853 Mobile Alabama Presentation Trumpet
      • Monumental Carved Stone Lions
    • Stoneware and Ceramics >
      • Cream De La Cream Stoneware Churn
      • Harman Brothers Whiskey Merchants Cooler
    • Arms and Militaria
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  • View of New Brighton, Pennsylvania