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Red-painted high chest of drawers. Molded rectangular top above two short and three long drawers with drop handles. Top piece set into a heavily molded frame above baluster turned legs and three stretchers (one plain rear stretcher) and two turned stiles in front (NFL states that it is six-legged).
high chests of drawers
case furniture
brass (alloy)
dovetail joints
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
turning (shaping process)
pine (wood)
William and Mary
Chest of Drawers
Chest, High
Pine
Brass
Dovetail
Painted
Turned
William and Mary
Chest, High
On the insie of the top-left drawer is a handwritten paper label (NFL) which reads: ""Six-legged/chest on frames./Found in a /very early house/in Naughton, MA (Norton, MA)""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
48 x 38 1/8 x 18 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1361
Probably Massachusetts (United States)
Probably
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