Chest of Drawers
- Object Name:
- Chest of Drawers
- Object ID:
- 1949.004.01
- Date:
- circa 1800
- Description:
- Chest of Drawers (tall chest). Straight front. Seven drawers, graduated. Cove molded cornice. Base has an ogee molded upper edge and bottom cut to form four straight bracket feet. Edges of the drawer fronts are molded. Each drawer has an oval brass escutcheon and two brass handles, each of these having a bail with bulbous center and an oval plate for each post. Full bottom boards. Diagonal braces forming back portion of rear legs. Hand-headed cut nails were used in the construction. Steel locks on upper three drawers; remainder of escutcheons are "blind". Pencil inscription on underside of third drawer from bottom reading: "C L Morgan." Drawers are numbered, either on right end or on outer surface of bottom. "X" in chalk on back of most of the drawers. Two typed labels with accession information: "An heirloom in the Carter family," according to legator, "dating back at least to my great grandfather, Daniel Carter, Jr., of Boscawen (1785-1873)."
- Material:
- Wood
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-64.125 W-39.25 D-19.625 inches
- Provenance:
- Chest was probably originally owned by Daniel and Mary Carter of Boscawen, NH. It descended in the family and was given to the New Hampshire Historical Society by his great-great granddaughter, Mary A. Carter (1867-1948).
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Mary A. Carter
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