Six-board chest with overhanging wire-hinged lid; boot-jack feet; fitted with covered till; painted red and decorated with black and yellow striping; the cover decorated with polychrome urn and foliate swag; chest decorated with yellow crows' feet motif at corners, and polychrome foliate swag at front.
miniatures (toys)
blanket chests
case furniture
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
swags
urns
Pine
Painted
Swag
Urn
Chest, Blanket
Painted on front of chest: ""J X B"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4.125 x 6.75 x 3.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.275
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