A PAINTED AND DECORATED BLANKET CHEST

PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1786

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A PAINTED AND DECORATED BLANKET CHEST
Pennsylvania, dated 1786
The rectangular hinged lid with applied molded edge above a conforming base decorated with three recessed arched panels each with stylized floral spray on a white ground and joined by applied mid-molding over the date 1786, the sides with painted cartouches on a red ground, all on a molded base with blue fancy painted decoration above a red base, missing feet
19in. high, 51in. wide, 22in. deep

Lot Essay

A related group of paint-decorated blanket chests is illustrated and discussed in Fabian, The Pennsylvania-German Decorated Chest(New York, 1978), pp. 124-125 and p. 147, figs. 77, 78, 80, 119 and 120. For an earlier group of paint-decorated chests, which may form a source for the group, see Fabian, pp. 110-111, figs. 53-55.

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