Chest of Drawers
Yellow washed chest of drawers, Mount Lebanon, NY
ca. 1840
Description
Chest of drawers with pine top, ends, bottom, back, all drawer rails except top, solid divider between half-width drawers and full-width ones, and partition. Drawers have basswood (curly) fronts, sides, and backs. Four half-width drawers plus top three full-width drawers have bottoms glued-up of white pine and spruce; bottom three drawers have spruce bottoms. Cherry knobs. Fourth full drawer has spruce divider has spruce divider running the full width of the drawer in center. Top full drawer has iron half-mortise lock. Painted or washed with yellow paint, varnished over (?).
Notes
New York Mount Lebanon Church Family
