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Hello everyone, just joined this forum, my field of interest is, early american furniture, pilgrim - colonial era . I'll try & post a pic of the kind of stuff i collect just to see if i can manage it!
Boston, C. 1690, Joined chest of drawers in oak & pine

 

Hey JC, it's only the 3rd of July.....but we'll let that slide........ if you stick around and help with all the furniture questions we get here on a regular basis !!
We could use your help !

Oh ..& welcome aboard !!!

 

Welcome!
Please go to back to edit and make all your photos full image now and always. Up to 10 per post.

 

ok, let me try & edit

 

I'm going off now but others will help.

 

Everything worked out well!

 

Greetings, James! And a safe and happy Fourth to you as well!

Lovely chest!

 

Hello James, welcome. I guess you live by Fijian time.
Looking forward to seeing the rest of your collection.

 

Welcome James, great piece of history!

 

Thanks everyone! Yeah, it's the 3rd of July but close enough as most are taking 3 day holiday today!
I call this chest the "bird" chest, there are aprox 20 known to exist, most in museums.Frances Safford, retired curator at the Met did a study of these chests in her wonderful book 1. Early Colonial Period: The 17th Century & William & Mary Styles.
There is only 1 chest extant with it's original paint intact, at the Brooklyn Museum

 

Gorgeous! But yours is beautiful as well.

 

Hi,
Beautiful chest!!! I was disappointed on the Brooklyn chest it did not jump out at me like yours did.
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Welcome aboard.

 

Magnificent chests !! Thank you for showing them Joy. And welcome James.

 

Welcome!

 

I was disappointed on the Brooklyn chest it did not jump out at me

I would bet that would change if you saw it in person, it's hard to convey the presence of pieces this old in a photo alone, the fact that any survive at all is incredible and survive with original paint? kind of a miracle. A lot of stuff happens over the course of 300+ years, i am honored to look after the one i have, if only for a little while.

 

Hi James,
I did see it in person. I used to live in Manhattan and moved to Brooklyn. It was nice but flat in person. I guess I used to the things in the Met that really shone. The Brooklyn Museum has the largest Egyptian collection outside the one in Cairo. I used to spend many an hour there. Yours has more life in it. It is really beautiful. I guess growing up in Pennsylvania with all the Amish painted furniture spoiled me.
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Oh wow, cool beans! The Met has a bird chest as well from the Bowles collection that was donated in the 1920s. In Bowles notes on the chest he referred to "bird decorations" on his chest but unfortunately the Met refinished it and so, that was THAT! Here is a pic of Bowles bird chest, sans birds!

 

WHAT!!!!????
MET = Metropolitan Museum of Artdiots

 

Hi Kot,
Put up your dukes!! Please do not say anything bad about the MET!!!! They saved me many a time with the church fire. The only thing I will say against the Met is that they are too far away now.
greg