China Trade Hardwood and Brass-Mounted Chest
The rectangular top within a egg-molded borders above a brushing slide above drawer supports and four graduated scroll- and foliate-carved hardwood drawers, the sides with brass bail handles, raised on associated foliate- and scroll-carved ogee bracket feet. Height 35 inches (88.9 cm), width 52 inches (132.1 cm), depth 27 inches (68.6 cm).

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Possible alterations, darker, more striated timber to top than lighter color of case and drawers, with drawer or flap supports flanking top drawer, old marks and scratches, scuffs to feet, losses to corner blocks, right front foot loose at top, losses to molding of slide, tongue-and-groove backboard loose, losses and restorations to drawer edges, possibly the lower section to a two-part piece.

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