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Joined chest with one drawer

1690–1720
Object Place: Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States

Medium/Technique Oak, white pine
Dimensions Overall: 91.1 x 111.8 x 50.8 cm (35 7/8 x 44 x 20 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Joseph Randolph Coolidge IV
Accession Number1991.482
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas

InscriptionsInitials "EH" carved on stiles flanking central panel.
ProvenanceProbably owned originally by a person with the initials "EH"; by the twentieth century, owned by Anna L. Coolidge, who according to her son, the donor, "remembered it in the back hall of her grandfather's house in Brattleboro [Vermont} as wood box for the kitchen stove"; inherited by the donor in 1983; lent to the Museum in 1985 and converted to a gift in 1991 (Accession Date June 26, 1991)