Chest of Drawers

Red-painted cupboard over chest of drawers, Church Family, Mount Lebanon, NY

Object ID:
1950.596.1
Community:
New York, Mount Lebanon
Description

Cupboard over chest of drawers of pine. Cupboard has two-frame and panel doors with iron butt hinges. Doors through mortised and tenoned and double pinned. Case of drawers has twelve dovetailed drawers in two banks. Top drawer of each bank had half-mortise locks and brass escutcheons. Between-centers turned knobs of ash. Back of tongue-and-grooved pine boards applied horizontally. Chest washed or stained red and varnished over. Knobs painted yellow.

New York Mount Lebanon

New York Mount Lebanon

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Shaker Museum Chest of Drawers. https://shakermuseum.us/object/?id=4239. Accessed on November 30, 2024

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