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Seven drawer chest, three small drawers on top above large drawer with inlaid panels; original brasses with lions heads; scalloped skirt with French feet; sides and drawer fronts are of solid mohogany; two keys in upper left drawer.
chests of drawers
case furniture
mahogany (wood)
Federal
figure- and animal-derived motifs
lion
heads (representations)
Mahogany
Federal
Lion
CHEST OF DRAWERS
Large drawer marked on back in chalk.
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
52.5 x 49.5 x 21 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.347
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