Chest, Blanket
Blanket chest painted red-brown, Mount Lebanon, NY
Description
Blanket chest of white pine. Typical six-board chest construction with dovetailed corners sitting in a plinth base with dovetails securing front corners and cut-outs with rounded ends forming feet at corners. Lid is hinged with forged iron chest hinges and has an applied molded lip at each end which overlaps the chest ends. There is a till inside the chest at each end. The proper right till has a small dovetailed drawer beneath which originally had a half-mortise lock which has been removed. A brass knob is centered in the drawer front. Painted red.