Counter

Description

Pine five-drawer tailoring counter with cherry knobs on drawer fonts. Chest sits on a dovetailed bracket foot with cut-out feet. Dovetailed drawers. Top attached to three cleats, one at each end of case screwed to ends and one at center screwed to top face frame rail and to divide between top half-width drawers. Beck boards applied horizontally. Brass escutcheon on top proper right drawer front. Drawer front tops are beveled matched the beveled under sides of drawer rails. Counter painted yellow. Top proper left drawer has elongated hole cut through drawer front to left of knob and a circular hole drilled through above knob. Iron half-mortise lock inside proper right top drawer front, chest has a solid pine bottom under bottom drawer. Top two drawers half-width, bottom three, full width and graduated depth. Top front corners are rounded, and have a 5" radius.

Notes

Inscribed "Wm Fairbanks." A William Fairbanks lived at the Second Family, Mount Lebanon, in 1819; no other information is known about him. Jerry Grant noted that the tops of the drawer fronts are beveled to match the bottom of the rails, an odd construction detail not seen in other Shaker pieces.