Chest of Drawers
- Object Name:
- Chest of Drawers
- Object ID:
- 1978.008.02
- Place of Origin:
- Dunbarton, NH
- Date:
- 1814
- Description:
- Chest of drawers, bow front. Unidentified maker; Dunbarton, NH; 1814. Four graduated drawers edged with cock-beads. Four tall, straight, bracket feet. Serpentine skirt with arches cut out on either side of central dropped panel. Each drawer front is divided visually into two sections by a vertical band of bird's-eye maple, horizontally oriented, and set within a mitred frame of mahogany veneer. The mitre joints at the inner edges of the two halves meet to form an additional lozenge of mahogany. The herringbone band bisecting the mahogany lozenge at the center of each drawer is interrupted at the top of the lozenge by an inlaid shield-shaped escutcheon of maple. Each maple triangle has a brass handle at its center and is surrounded by a rectangular panel of double, light and dark, line stringing. Each handle made of an oval stamped brass plate and a bail. Two bands of diagonal inlay, executed in several shades of wood, extending around sides and front of case, one on edge of top and the other above skirt. The lower band is on a larger scale than that on top. Central drop panel, elongated lozenge-shaped panels, and escutcheons maple; lozenge-shaped panels being of bird's-eye grain. Remainder of front of case veneered with mahogany. Top and sides of case, including sides of feet stained birch. Full bottom boards. Drawer fronts laminated. A steel lock on each of three lower drawers; uppermost escutcheon "blind." Chalk inscription on upper surface of bottom boards: "...arton/...ch 16th 1814.". Cardboard label with ink inscription nailed to backboard, reading, "Mrs. B. P. Paige / Bradford / N.H." (Mrs. Brad Plummer Paige or Page). Hand-forged and cut nails used in construction.
- Material:
- Mahogany
Maple
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-37.625 W-43.5 D-21 inches
- Provenance:
- The first owners were probably Jeremiah Page (1756-1842) and Elizabeth (Carlton) Page (1772-1849) of Dunbarton, great-great- grandparents of the donor, Mary F. Martin.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Mary F. Martin
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