Chest with drawer
Unknown
1720–35 · Painted white pine, yellow pine, yellow poplar, oak · The American Wing
The painting technique employed on this chest is that of the Guilford-Saybrook, Connecticut school of painted furniture. Originally painted on yellow ground—a bit of which is still visible at the top of the left side—the floral elements are more limited and the compositions more formulaic than in earlier examples, (10.125.15; 10.125.16) suggesting a waning tradition.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1720–35
- Medium
- Painted white pine, yellow pine, yellow poplar, oak
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1945
