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1764-1780
GUSN-63341
Upper section with five graduated drawers; broken arch pediment with ogee and cove molded cornice; central plinth with urn and flame-turned finial; finials at front corners on square plinths (missing their urns). Lower case with four graduated reverse sepentine fronted drawers with square side edgee; upper most drawer shaped with segmented arches topping convex bows. Ogee base molding, straight bracket feet with shaped knee brackets, central drop original. Shaped brasses. Matches chest of drawers 1955.400.
chests-on-chests
case furniture
gilding
mahogany (wood)
pine (wood)
veneering
walnut (wood)
Norway spruce (wood)
Chippendale
pine (wood)
walnut (wood)
Chippendale
Gilded
Walnut
Pine
Veneered
Mahogany
CHEST OF DRAWERS
Barrett, Charles, 1740-1808
Used at Barrett House (New Ipswich, N.H.),
Unknown
77.25 x 43.625 x 21.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Caroline Barr Wade
1955.399
Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
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