Object Number 1959.2973

Object Name

Chest of drawers

Category

Furniture

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Place of Origin

Northumberland, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Origin Notes

Creation place is the Mahantongo Valley, sometimes defined more precisely as the Schwaben Creek Valley, in Northumberland and Schuylkill Counties.

Date

1830

Materials

Pine, yellow; Tulip poplar; Paint

Dimensions (inches)

50.375 (H) , 43.5 (W) , 21.25 (D)

Dimensions (centimeters)

127.953 (H) , 110.49 (W) , 53.98 (D)

Measurement Notes

OW at top. OD at top.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Hutchins, Catherine E., et al. 1983 Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans.
• Published: pp. 130-34.
[Book] Moltmann, Gunter & Bickelmann, Hartmut. 1982 Germans to America: 300 years of immigration, 1683-1983.
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[Book] Weiser, Frederick S. & Sullivan, Mary Hammond. 1980 Decorated Furniture of the Schwaben Creek Valley. 333-394.
• Published: fig. 25.
[Book] Cooper, Wendy A. & Minardi, Lisa. Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania 1725-1850.
• See pp. 94-98 for more info. and related objects.
[Book] Reed, Henry M. 1987 Decorated Furniture of the Mahantongo Valley.
• Published: fig. 3, p. 11.
[Article] Minardi, Lisa. 2011 From Millbach to Mahantongo: Fraktur and Furniture of the Pennsylvania Germans. American Furniture. 2-119.
• For more info. and related objects, see pp. 94-97.