1750-1775
GUSN-2787
Red-painted pine "box of drawers" or "case of boxes" as they were known; small chest form with 6 drawers- 3 rows and 2 columns; pine knobs on a molded plinth base; large dovetails at top.
chests of drawers
case furniture
dovetail joints
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
Dovetail
CHEST
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
21.75 x 24 x 11.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1237
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