William and Mary brown-stained maple high chest of drawers, of two sections, the upper a chest of drawers with molded top above two small and three large drawers with brass drop-pullhandles (some replaced) and escutcheons, on molded base, fitted into a lower section, a frame with overhanding molded top above small center rectangular drawer flanked by two square drawers with single-arch molding and conforming drop-pull handles and escutcheon, above shaped apron with round arch to center and shaped side panels, maple veneer on frame, standing on 6 trumpet legs with narrow bottoms on shaped front and side stretchers and straight rear stretcher, resting on flattened ball feet. Dovetailed and pegged secondary pine used on very top, sides of drawers, bottom underneath, back.
high chests of drawers
case furniture
maple (wood)
cedar (wood)
eastern white pine (wood)
dovetail joints
staining
turning (shaping process)
veneering
William and Mary
Chest of Drawers
Chest of Drawers
NFL typed jelly label on the inside left of the bottom chest drawer: ""Bought from Mrs. Joseph/Howland, Westport, Mass(92 years old) Highboy/descended in her hus-/band's family.""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1291
Unknown
RI, Newport or town along Naragansett Bay; Newport, RI
61 1/4 x 40 x 22 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1292
Possibly Rhode Island (United States)
Possibly
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