Chest of Drawers
- Object Name:
- Chest of Drawers
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.44
- Place of Origin:
- New England, probably NH
- Date:
- 1825-1850
- Description:
- Chest of drawers, straight-front. Four drawers in main case with a double-layered tier above, the upper layer having three drawers and the lower two. Uppermost drawer in main case projects 2.875" beyond lower drawers and is supported at front corners by freestanding colonnettes, composed of large-scale spiral, cup, cylindrical and ring turnings. Four vase-turned legs with ring-turned anklets above short cylindrical feet. Scrolled crest at back. Two wooden knobs on each drawer except on upper layer of tier where each drawer has one knob. Drawers have cock-beaded edges but are not graduated. Drawer fronts and front of case veneered with mahogany. Drawer knobs mahogany. Cock bead probably spruce. Remainder of primary wood birch, stained. Full bottom boards. A steel lock on each of main drawers. Knobs on tier definitely replaced. Drawers numbered on backs and inner surface of bottoms.Chalk inscription on outer surface of crest, partially legible: "Miss D [ ]t." Possible pencil inscription on right end of top drawer. Typed paper label with accession information on back. Finish darkened and crazed.
- Material:
- Mahogany
Birch - Dimensions:
- H-53.25 W-44.25 D-20.125 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro) between 1895 and 1913.
- Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
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