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Chest on chest
Ca. 1770
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Williamsburg, United States
This Philadelphia chest on chest echoes the form of the example across the gallery but sports a different pediment shape and different ornament. The scrolled pediment here was more popular than the angled, pitched-pediment model on the other chest. This one, made of native American black walnut, cost around £16, which was £5 less than a chest of the same form and decoration executed in imported tropical mahogany.
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Details
- Title: Chest on chest
- Date Created: Ca. 1770
- Location Created: America, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Dimensions: OH: 8' 3 1/2"; OW: 46 1/4"; OD: 23 1/4"
- Type: Chest on Chest
- Rights: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hennage.
- External Link: Learn more about this object at Colonial Williamsburg's emuseum
- Medium: Black walnut, tulip poplar, white pine, yellow pine, and white cedar
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