An overhanging hinged lid with molded edge on dovetail constructed box with molded edge raised on shaped bracket feet. The surface is painted blue and grain painted in elaborate swirls in darker blue. Till without cover inside.
blanket chests
case furniture
graining
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
CHEST, BLANKET
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
19 x 40.75 x 17.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.474
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