Chest

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Chest

Entry/Object ID

GHS 2593

Description

Colonial Revival walnut high chest of drawers in the Chippendale style. Upper section with scrolled pediment flanked by urn-and-flame finials above two short drawers centering a shell-carved drawer over four long graduated drawers; the lower section fitted with a long drawer over two short drawers centering a shell-carved drawer above a shaped apron with shell, on shell-carved cabriole legs terminating in claw-and-ball feet.

Made/Created

Date made

1890 - 1910

Place

* Untyped Place

America

Dimensions

Height

95 in

Width

44 in

Depth

23-1/2 in

Material

Walnut

Provenance

Notes

Gift of the Florence Baker Estate, September 1977.