A Provincial Estate Made Chest on Stand Adapted to a Coffee Table c.1700-20 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage primitive artifacts

primitive artifacts

perhaps of visitors to the 1851 Great Exhibition

this is a superb piece of fairground art that provides a show-stopping spectacle wherever it hangs

The cane-work has two small holes to the back panel

just decipherable

A Provincial Estate Made Chest on Stand Adapted to a Coffee Table c.1700-20 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage primitive artifactsOrigin: English Period: Queen Anne George I Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1700 20 Width: 38 inches Height: 19 inches Depth: 23 inches The beech, oak and pine chest, formerly one part of a period chest on stand, having an unusual arrangement of one long and four short drawers, with four original escutcheons and three pearl drop handles, the other handles nineteenth century replacements, the carcass showing the original dark stained finish now distressed