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Deep Run Decorator Blanket Chest |
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| Catalog#: |
Item 4486 |
| Category: |
Furniture - American |
| Origin: |
America-USA |
| Era: |
19th Century |
| Height: |
26 inches inches |
| Width: |
38-1/2 inches inches |
| Depth: |
19-7/8 inches inches |
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Rare Pennsylvania Blanket Chest decorated by the 'Deep Run Decorator' retaining its original salmon paint with yellow moldings and decorated with a sechstern on the lid, tulips on each end and cat's eyes on the front, a lift lid concealing a hinged til, two overlapping drawers below and turned feet.
All original. Paint faded and lacks its original Sandwich glass knobs.
Bedminster, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, circa 1830.
Width 38-1/2', depth 19-7/8', height 26'.
Provenance: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Literature: This chest is pictured in Folk Art In America, A Living Tradition, page 88.
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