Six-Board Chest
date: label: date made
content: ca 1710
notes: label: Description
content: Six-board chest with dowel pin hinge. Oblong top overlaps edges and is reinforced on both sides with a strip of wood pegged to the underside of the lid and running parallel to sides of body and tapering toward front. Front of chest has three horizontal bands (approximately 1” each) of beveling. Irregular chamfering on edges of front panel. Feet are cut from side panels and have notched ornamentation. Front feet project forward, and front panel has three bands of horizontal grooves. Panel is held together with wooden pegs. Bottom of sides cut out with three triangular tops (similar to half of a six-pointed star) Handwrought iron nails visible.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New England
topic: label: Subject
content: Furniture
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.388057
label: catalog number
content: 388057
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chest
label: Object Name
content: chest
label: Other Terms
content: Chest; Furniture
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, pine (overall material)