A CHERRYWOOD SCHRANK

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A CHERRYWOOD SCHRANK
PENNSYLVANIA

The overhanging cornice with dentil molding above a frieze with painted inscription, "17------------," over a paneled case and cupboard doors opening to a compartment, above three-thumbmolded short drawers and molded base, on turned flattened ball feet--80 1/4in. high, 60in. wide, 22 3/4in. deep

Lot Essay

A related paneled Kas, or Schrank, also with three drawers and bun feet and attributed to Lancaster county, is in the collection of the Wright's Ferry Mansion, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and illustrated in Gunnion, "The Pennsylvania-German Schrank," Antiques (May, 1983): 1022, fig.2.