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Highchest

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1740-1760

GUSN

GUSN-50099

Description

Cabriole legs; pad feet; shaped kirt; cock beading around drawers.

Details

Descriptive Terms

high chests of drawers
case furniture
maple (wood)
walnut (wood)
Norway spruce (wood)
Chippendale
maple (wood)
walnut (wood)
Walnut
Pine
Maple
Chippendale
CHEST OF DRAWERS

Inscription

In chalk on lower right drawer bottom: illegible, may be drawer nos. but looks like letters.

Maker

Unknown

Accession Number

1982.51

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