Pennsylvania painted dower chest, ca. 1800, the front decorated with three red tombstone panels with tulip and potato stamp decoration on a green sponge ground supported by bracket feet, 23 3/4'' h., 48 3/4'' w. For a chest decorated by the same hand, see Stoudt, Early Pennsylvania Arts & Crafts, fig. 199.
Condition report
1/4 of side base return molding and one back foot replaced.
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October 24th&25th, 2008 - Machmer Collection
7:00 AM PT - Oct 25th, 2008
offered by
Pook & Pook, Inc.
463 East Lancaster Ave.
Downingtown, PA 19335
Downingtown, PA 19335
