1730-1760
GUSN-255304
Upper section has five graduated drawers with thin thumbnail molded edge, bottom even with drawer bottom. Flat top with cove and ogee molded cornice, side boards rabetted through top. Lower section has support frame with deep apron cut at sides with flat ogee arch, front has two ogee arches centering ogee with arch top. Space between arches has double point, not drops (usually a Connecticut feature). Unusual cabriole legs jut out sharply at knee, small brackets angle created by point of knee continues to thin ankles, legs end with Spanish feet. Refinished red-brown stain, evidence of darker, earlier color. Replaced brasses.
high chests of drawers
cherry (wood)
pine (wood)
Chest of Drawers
Chest, High
Chest, High
Thacher, Mary
Original To Winslow Crocker House (Yarmouth Port, Mass.),
251.1981
Unknown
Connecticut
62 3/8 x 40 x 20 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Estate of Guido Perera
1999.456
Connecticut (United States)
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