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Also Known As	chest-on-stand • chest-on-chest • tallboy

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Colonial American Queen Anne furniture (Left to right) Maple and pine mirror, probably from Boston, 1720–45, above a tulip and maple tea table, Middle Colonies, 1730–40; japanned pine and maple high chest by John Pimm of Boston, 1740–50; and a walnut splat-back Queen Anne armchair; in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Delaware.

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