Veneered four drawer chest with veneered recessed top section; rectangular and scalloped crest splashboard surmounts the two-drawer recessed case; two round and stepped wooden pulls on each drawer; overhanging top drawer in main case supported by two rope-turned colonets; three straight-front drawers below; two round and stepped wooden pulls on each drawer; colonets terminate into turned front stiles; turned back stiles.
chests of drawers
case furniture
mahogany (wood)
veneering
Empire (style)
Mahogany
Empire
Veneered
CHEST OF DRAWERS
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
49 x 43.125 x 19.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.647
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