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Chest of Drawers

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1715-1735

GUSN

GUSN-49362

Description

Chest of drawers with two smaller central drawers above two larger top and lower drawers; grained and painted "panels" on drawers; flattened ball feet.

Details

Descriptive Terms

chests of drawers
case furniture
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
poplar (wood)
red oak (wood)
Norway spruce (wood)
Chest of Drawers
Chest of Drawers

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

35 7/8 x 40 1/8 x 19 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Estate of Florence Evans Bushee

Accession Number

1976.234

Reference Notes

Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.

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