Chest of drawers. Mahogany and mahogany veneer. White pine secondary wood. Upper case has two small rectangular drawers and inwardly curved splashboard with Vitruvian scrolls. Bow-front drawer facade on lower case with flanking rope-turned columns that terminate in four ring-and-baluster-turned legs. All drawers have round brass backplates with brass ring pulls.
chests of drawers
case furniture
mahogany (wood)
veneering
Norway spruce (wood)
Empire (style)
Mahogany
Pine
Veneered
Empire
CHEST OF DRAWERS
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
49 5/8 x 41 1/4 x 19 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.2472
Massachusetts (United States)
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