Chest of Drawers
- Title:
- Chest of Drawers
- Object Name:
- Chest of Drawers
- Object ID:
- 1999.040.120
- Date:
- 1920-1930
- Description:
- Chest of drawers, bow front. Six drawers, two half drawers at top with four full-length drawers below. Drawers are dovetail construction. Each full-length drawer has two brass bailed drawer pulls. Each half drawer has one brass bailed drawer pull. Each full-length drawer has a lock. Casters present. bow front. Maple, with secondary woods of pine and possibly tulip poplar. Stenciled on back "VV N 69". (Additional wheels, drawer pull, as well as glass carpet savers present in top drawer).
- Material:
- Maple
Pine
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-48.25 W-32.75 D-20 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the bedroom furniture used by Annalee Davis as a girl, when she lived with her grandparents on Centre St. in Concord, N.H., mid-1920s to 1930s; Annalee and her mother and sisters moved in with her mother's parents (Ladd), after the death of Annalee's father. Annalee reminisced that her doll-making business began in that Concord bedroom, as she invited friend over to help her make dolls.
Annalee also explained that this chest of drawers originally belonged to her grandfather (Fred N. Ladd), and that the top half-drawers were used for his collars and cuffs. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Annalee Davis Thorndike
- Subjects:
- Furniture
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