Chest of Drawers
- Object Name:
- Chest of Drawers
- Object ID:
- 1940.003
- Creator:
- Dunlap, Samuel (1752-1830) -- Cabinetmaker
- Place of Origin:
- Salisbury, NH
- Date:
- circa 1800
- Description:
- Chest of Drawers. Attributed to Samuel Dunlap (1752-1830), Salisbury, NH; circa 1800. Maple with white pine. Nine drawers, straight front, and flat top. Elaborate cornice with dentils and cove and "flowered ogee" moldings. Five graduated drawer in upper case; found graduated drawer in lower case. Top drawer in upper case and bottom drawer in lower case each simulate the appearance of three narrow drawer. Scotia molding at top of lower case. Frame has "flowered ogee" and scotia moldings at top and four short cabriole legs with sharp knees, hooped brackets and club feet on pads of small diameter; skirt has a pair of molded horizontal S-scrolls pendant at center, flanked by carved fans on face of frame. Carved fan of larger scale on simulated central bottom drawer. Each drawer has molded edges. Drawer are fitted with oval stamped escutcheons and brass handles each having a bail wit bulbous center and an oval plate for each post. Evidence of former orange paint. Shells of type known as "spoon handle" shells. A pierced scallop between each dentil in cornice. Hand-headed cut nails used in construction. Both main cases have full top and bottom boards. Two long diagonal braces at front corners of frame. Top three drawers in lower case are each fitted with a steel lock; other escutcheons "blind." Figure "22" in chalk repeated four times inside upper case. Penciled tally on left end of second drawer from top. Chalk "X" on inner surface of top and bottom of lower case. Upper drawers numbered in pencil on bottom; lower drawers lettered. Some drawer dividers numbered in chalk. Adhesive tape label with accession information in top drawer of lower case. Roman numerals chiselled on inner surfaces of legs and on adjacent rails of frame.
Keys present (stored separately). - Material:
- Wood
Metal - Dimensions:
- H-81.5 W-43.5 D-22.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Purchased from Edgar S. Hawthorne (1884-1963) by Edith S. Freeman (1882-1943), New Hampshire Historical Society Librarian, with funds provided by Margaret H. Jewell. according to file notes, Mr. Hawthorne, a dealer, purchased the chest from the parents of Edward Leon Carroll of Warner. According to family tradition, this piece was "always" in the family. Whether the original purchase was direct from Dunlap is not known, but it was owned by the family in Sutton before they moved to Warner. Both Sutton and Warner are near Salisbury, where Samuel Dunlap is known to have been working after 1797.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, with funds provided by Margaret H. Jewell
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