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1760-1790
GUSN-57975
High chest of drawers. Maple primary wood and white pine secondary. Broken scroll pediment has three urn-shaped finials. Upper section of case has four rectangular drawers with two small upper drawers that flank a shell-carved central drawer. Lower section has one rectangular drawer over a central drawer with shell carving flanked by two uncarved drawers. Skirt has turned drops. Rests on four cabriole legs with pad feet.
high chests of drawers
case furniture
Queen Anne
Chest Of Drawers
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
85 3/8 x 39 7/8 x 23 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.3070
Massachusetts (United States)
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