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Culture:American
Title:high chest
Date Made:1695-1720
Type:Furniture
Materials:wood: walnut, white pine; base metal: brass
Place Made:United States; eastern Massachusetts
Measurements:overall: 51 3/4 x 40 1/4 x 23 in.; 131.445 x 102.235 x 58.42 cm
Accession Number:  HD 63.165
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
William and Mary high chest of drawers in walnut. The early high chests, first produced around 1700, were simply a chest of drawers on a low base, with heavy molding on the top of the frame, and turned legs and stretchers. The upper section of this high chest, which is seated in a frame, has a molded flat top over two short drawers, over three long graduated drawers, and all surrounded with single-arch molding. The lower section has heavy molding over one long drawer, supported on five, rounded trumpet-turned legs ending in ball feet, curved flat stretchers on the front and side, and a straight flat stretcher in the rear. The surface and most of the hardware (except on the two lower drawers) are original. This chest was purportedly once owned by Elnathan Chauncey of Durham, Connecticut.

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