Chest of Drawers
- Object Name:
- Chest of Drawers
- Object ID:
- 1978.012
- Place of Origin:
- NH (probably)
- Date:
- 1800-1820
- Description:
- Chest of drawers, straight front. Federal style. Engaged three-quarter round colonnettes at front corners, reeded for most of their length with cylindrical sections above and below. Four graduated drawers edged with dart inlay executed in several shades of wood. Top has rounded projections above each colonnette. A band of same dart inlay on front and side edges of top and extending around projections. Four vase-turned legs with vase-turned feet -- those at front being extensions below the case, of the engaged colonnettes. Scrolled skirt with arches cut out at center and near ends. Applied double bead extending along front and side of case above skirt. Two wooden knobs on each drawer together with an oval stamped brass escutcheon. Decorative grooves encircling legs and cylindrical turning.
Legs and engaged colonnettes mahogany. Remainder of case veneered with mahogany. Partial bottom boards. Steel locks on three upper drawers; lower escutcheon "blind." Drawers numbered on inner surface of bottom. Chalk marks (possibly inscription) on left end of one drawer. Several auction labels. Illegible inscription inside upper drawer bottom. Back painted brown. Drawer knobs attached with modern screws. - Material:
- Mahogany
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-39.375 W-42.625 D-19.625 inches
- Provenance:
- Formerly in the collection of William H. and Pamelia B. G. Coburn, Boston, MA. Purchased at auction from Christie's, New York, (Ronald DeSilva), 1978, with funds donated by William Nathaniel Banks, Temple, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of William Nathaniel Banks
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