Chest of Drawers

Description

Case of six drawers made primarily of tiger-stripe maple. Secondary woods include a cherry top, yellow poplar drawer sides and backs, basswood drawer bottoms, walnut drawer guides and face-turned knobs on drawers: two each. Three of the drawers (#1, 4, 6) have mostly poplar drawer bottoms. The vertical five-board back also poplar. Case ends are frame (pinned mortise and tenon joints) and flat panel floating in dados in the frame stiles and rails. Interestingly, the panels are rebated on the insides and are proud of the inside frame by 1/8". The drawers are flush, dovetailed, and graduated. Lock and a diamond-shaped, curly maple escutcheon on the top drawer. A curly maple cove molding mitered around the cherry top and the entire case sits in a mitered bracket foot whose feet were cut off when castors were attached to the bottom. Remnants of the original bracket foot stored in the bottom drawer.

Notes

The chest is from Union Village, Ohio, and was taken to Canterbury, New Hampshire when Union Village was closing, around 1914-1920. The piece was restored by Boyd Hutchison in 2009; to learn more about that project, read this blog post: https://www.shakermuseum.us/the-restoration-of-a-case-piece/