Chest of Drawers
Unknown
1730–60 · Walnut, walnut veneer, white pine · The American Wing
In the 1730s, Boston cabinetmakers transformed the traditional flat-top, turned-leg William and Mary–style high chest into the scroll-top, cabriole-leg Queen Anne version. The best examples of this uniquely American design, such as this high chest and its related dressing table (10.125.72), have carved and gilded shells and delicate inlaid compass stars on the pediment and case sides.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1730–60
- Medium
- Walnut, walnut veneer, white pine
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909
