Chest-of-Drawers
- Medium: Mahogany, white pine, brass
- Place Made: Massachusetts, USA
- Dates: ca. 1770
- Dimensions: 32 1/4 x 35 3/4 x 22 in. (82.6 x 90.8 x 55.9 cm)
- Collections: Decorative Arts
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor - Accession Number: 1997.150.20
- Credit Line: Matthew Scott Sloan Collection, Gift of Lidie Lane Sloan McBurney
- Image: Overall, 1997.150.20_transp693.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
- Catalogue Description: Chippendale style chest-of-drawers, reverse serpentine front. Four graduated drawers, arranged with largest at bottom, each outlined by cock beading attached to frame; four Massachusetts-type ball-and-claw feet with scroll knee brackets at front; skirt has molding on edges of front and sides; top is irregular-shaped with molding along edges of front and sides. Hardware: each drawer has three batwing-shaped brass escutcheons, arranged in a horizontal line with a keyhole in the middle escutcheon and drop handles to the outer two; brass lock under keyhole escutcheon on each of top three drawers. CONDITION - Large cracks on front of bottom drawer; smaller cracks on front feet and front left knee; top left escutcheon broken with bottom portion missing. Wood added at top of back to replace shrinkage; bottom left drawer stop missing. On all four drawers: modern repair to split on bottom of each; most blocks missing; all runners repaired; some 19th and 20th century nails.
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