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Rare Pennsylvania Blanket Chest decorated by the "Deep Run Decorator"
Rare Pennsylvania Blanket Chest decorated by the “Deep Run Decorator” retaining its original salmon paint with yellow moldings and decorated with a sechstern on the lid, tulips on each end and cat’s eyes on the front, a lift lid concealing a hinged til, two overlapping drawers below and turned feet.
All original. Paint faded and lacks its original Sandwich glass knobs.
Bedminster, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, circa 1830.
Width 38 1/2”, depth 19 7/8”, height 26”.
Provenance: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Literature: This chest is pictured in Folk Art In America, A Living Tradition, page 88.
Item 4486