High Chest

Artist unknown

Dateca. 1770

Terms

High Chests
Cherry
Chestnut
Maple
Pine
Concord (Massachusetts)

Dimensions222.25 × 102.24 × 51.31 cm (87 1/2 × 40 1/4 × 20 3/16 in.)

Markings"W. Emerson" inscribed in chalk on the back.

Credit LineHigh Chest, Unknown Maker, Concord, Massachusetts, about 1770. Concord Museum Collection, Gift of Neil and Anna Rasmussen and anonymous donor; 1997.16.

Object number1997.16

DescriptionCherry, soft maple, white pine, chestnut. Queen Anne cherry bonnet top high chest of drawers. The top section is molded with swan's neck cresting and three turned flame carved finials above a thumb-molded central drawer flanked by short drawers and three graduated long drawers. Below, thumb-molded long drawer and three short drawers on cabriole legs ending in pad feet, joined by valanced skirt with turned dropped pendants. Most of the brass appears original, old refinish.

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