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Simple rectangular case with rounded corners, with slightly overhanging top with rounded edges. Case with an applied demi-round molding down the edges on the front. Case encloses two small over three long drawers. Sides and front terminate in bracket-curves creating ogee-like feet. Painted bright red with gilt like banding on top and on drawer fronts. Probably repainted in the 1880s. Original turned walnut mushroom style drawer pulls.
chests of drawers
case furniture
gilding
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
Gilded
Chest Of Drawers
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
Unknown
40 1/8 x 39 7/8 x 17 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.453
Title Bed Accession Number 1970.874
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