Chest

Object/Artifact

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Chest

Entry/Object ID

GHS 2577

Description

Queen Anne walnut chest with drawers. Lift top with wrought-iron strap hinges. Moulded edge top, four inset panels, upper row of three drawers and lower row of two. Square block feet, moulded bottom edge. Central brass escutcheon flanked by inlay. Marking on UR front. Iron crab lock. Chest ends are inset rectangular panels with ogee moulding. Back is two inset square panels. Center inlay around lock, "RLA 1746" UR front is scratched "LFH 1851".

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Pennsylvania

Dimensions

Height

34-1/2 in

Width

50 in

Depth

21-3/4 in

Material

Walnut; oak, pine, lightwood inlay

Relationships

Related Publications

Publication

Nutting, Wallace, Furniture Treasury, vol. 1 plate 97 (1976 edition) Lockwood, Vincent Colonial Furniture in America vol 1, 1913 pps. 20-25 Horner, W.M, Blue Book of Philadelphia Furniture, 1935 Germantown Crier F1987 39(4):87 Beehive XI, 2, p.18

Provenance

Notes

Donated by the Florence K. Baker Estate, 9/15/1977 GHS Accession #2577 "Walnut Dower Chest, LRA 1748, Montague Collection, Illustrated, Nutting."