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Joined chest with one drawer

1690–1720
Object PlaceHampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/TechniqueOak, white pine
DimensionsOverall: 91.1 x 111.8 x 50.8 cm (35 7/8 x 44 x 20 in.)
Credit LineGift of Joseph Randolph Coolidge IV
Accession number1991.482
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsFurniture
Collections
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)
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