Sewing Desk
Unidentified Enfield Shaker maker (Enfield, New Hampshire), American, active 1793-1923
about 1830-1850
White pine, brass
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.22.16380ab
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Furniture: Storage
Research Area
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in chalk, inside each drawer, numbering 1 through 8; labeled, with adhesive rectangular tags, on inside of drawers and corresponding runner: 1 through 8; inscribed, in chalk, inside first full size drawer: Upper
Provenance
From "Old Shaker Colony" Enfield Shakers, New Hampshire; collected by Frank C. (1850-1912) and Clara G. Churchill (1851-1945), Lebanon, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1946.
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