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Description:
Joined chest covered with carbon black, which was later covered in yellow (nineteenth century) and red (later eighteenth-century) paints. The original surface was bluish-black. The chest has a plain top with a heavily molded cornice in chestnut;over four graduated drawers with nineteenth-century wood pulls. The sides of the white oak stiles have a shallow three-grove molding, on a molded chestnut base with four square feet.

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