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Chest of Drawers

Red-painted cupboard over chest of drawers, Church Family, Mount Lebanon, NY

Object ID:
1950.596.1
Community:
New York, Mount Lebanon
Description

Cupboard over chest of drawers of pine. Cupboard has two-frame and panel doors with iron butt hinges. Doors through mortised and tenoned and double pinned. Case of drawers has twelve dovetailed drawers in two banks. Top drawer of each bank had half-mortise locks and brass escutcheons. Between-centers turned knobs of ash. Back of tongue-and-grooved pine boards applied horizontally. Chest washed or stained red and varnished over. Knobs painted yellow.

New York Mount Lebanon

New York Mount Lebanon

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Shaker Museum Chest of Drawers. https://shakermuseum.us/object/?id=4239. Accessed on May 19, 2024

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Shane Rothe

Curatorial Associate

Shane Rothe (they/them) joined Shaker Museum in July 2023, working with independent curator Maggie Taft on an exhibition for the new museum space in Chatham. Shane is an artist as well as a curator and continues to create in the mediums of painting, sculpture, writing, and performance. Shane holds a BFA from CalArts and an MA in art history and curatorial studies from the University of Chicago.