Photo: Courtesy of the Martha's Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, Mass., Photo by Bob Schellhammer.
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High chest of drawers |
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Object numberRIF4270 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions70 × 39 3/4 × 19 7/8 in. (177.8 × 100.965 × 50.483 cm) |
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Date176075 |
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Current locationMartha's Vineyard Museum |
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GeographyMade in, or possibly made in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); chestnut, white pine (secondary) |
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InscriptionsNumbers beginning with "5" at the top and ending with "I" at the bottom, in chalk in large florid script on the back of upper case drawers; similar numbering on the back of lower case drawers; vertical mark in chalk follows every number; well-worn chalk numbers also present on drawer sides; "18 October first [at least two illegible words]" in pencil on side of an end drawer in lower case. |
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ProvenanceOriginally owned by Ephraim Pease (17371789) and his wife, Hannah Harper Pease (17381767), Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; by descent to their daughter, Love Pease (born 1762), Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; by descent to the niece of her daughter, Nellie Norton. Florence M. Troemner and Clara L. Troemner; given to the Martha's Vineyard Museum |
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Associated namesEphraim PeaseHannah Harper Pease Love Pease Florence M. Troemner Clara L. Troemner Nellie Norton |
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BibliographyBrock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien, Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 17101850 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009), 23233, no. 80.Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, N.H., New Hampshire Fall Auction, sale cat. (October 25, 2009), 47 (comp.cit). |