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Chest
about 1670
Object Place: Marblehead, Massachusetts
Medium/Technique
Oak
Dimensions
Overall: 81.3 x 110.5 x 52.1 cm (32 x 43 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Joseph P. and Anne Pellegrino
Accession Number1986.583
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Case furniture and boxes
InscriptionsInscribed: "LOAN / 5/26/58 / Batchelder, C.E. / Portsmouth N H"
Painted on outside of back in red letters on white background: "L58.44.1"
Painted on outside of back in red letters on white background: "L58.44.1"
ProvenanceEarly history unknown; owned at a later date by Charles Hull Batchelder (1876-1948), Portsmouth, New Hampshire; ca. 1948, inherited by Mrs. Charles E. Batchelder, Robert Batchelder, and Richard Batchelder; 1958-1986, on loan to the New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, by the aforementioned members of the Batchelder family; 1986, acquired by the Museum at Sotheby's, New York, sale 5599, October 25, 1986, lot 278 (Accession Date: November 26,1986).