Rectangular top with molded edge on a 5-drawer case (2 short drawers over 3 graduated long drawers), with molded base raised on 4 turned elongated ball feet. All is painted red-brown and decorated with yellow and black to simulate tortoise shell. Original engraved, brass quatrefoil escutcheons, teardrop pulls and back plates. The facade of case is accented with arched moldings surrounding drawers and side verticals.
chests of drawers
case furniture
Tulip Poplar
Painted
William and Mary
CHEST, DRAWERS
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
41.5 x 36.875 x 18.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1334
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