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Chest-on-chest
1780
Object Place: Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Mahogany, white pine
Dimensions
Block: 213.9 x 106.7 x 62.2 cm (84 3/16 x 42 x 24 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Josie F. Prescott and Miss Mary E. Prescott
Accession Number33.373
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Case furniture and boxes
Catalogue Raisonné
Randall 41
InscriptionsCarved into the top of the lower section:
"E M 1780" (the two circles of the 8 and the 0 are made by a compass)
"E M" carved a second time in other area of top of lower section.
Inscribed in ink on top of the lower section (opposite orientation than the carved initials and date):
"Feb 26th 1780 / Martin & __________ / Que est Fecit hic"
Also inscribed in ink on top of lower section (hard to read from image):
"Nat_______
___
Fecit ____"
Chalk inscription on back of top section: hard to descipher-- see images in folder.
"E M 1780" (the two circles of the 8 and the 0 are made by a compass)
"E M" carved a second time in other area of top of lower section.
Inscribed in ink on top of the lower section (opposite orientation than the carved initials and date):
"Feb 26th 1780 / Martin & __________ / Que est Fecit hic"
Also inscribed in ink on top of lower section (hard to read from image):
"Nat_______
___
Fecit ____"
Chalk inscription on back of top section: hard to descipher-- see images in folder.
ProvenanceMade for Content Hood (1730-1805) of Nahant (Lynn) who became Mrs. Walter Phillips. Inherited into the female line by Abigail Phillips (Mrs. John Dow of Kensington, N.H.), Abigail A. Dow (Mrs. Jonathan Fitts), Benjamin Abbott Fitts, and in 1899 by his nieces, the donors, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.