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Our Earliest Type of Furniture 
(Continued from page 21) 
During the dreadful Mid-Victorian- 
Eastlake-Centennial reign of horror 
in the realms of furniture and interior 
decoration, chests were deemed un¬ 
couth and relegated to garrets where 
they were filled with a litter of old 
bills and accounts or stowed with un¬ 
used clothing and ancient finery cov¬ 
ered with moth balls and camphor, 
or, perhaps, used as storage places 
for pots of jelly and jam. 
The Revival of the Chest 
In recent years the beautiful carved 
chests that dealers have imported 
from abroad have proved an inspira¬ 
tion and have set many to ransacking 
their garrets, thus bringing once 
more to light their own hitherto un¬ 
appreciated treasures. In not a few 
of the garrets of our old and long 
tenanted houses are chests, large and 
small, of walnut or mahogany, chests 
of painted pine—and these painted 
chests are not to be despised—chests 
of cedar and cypress and occasionally, 
chests of oak. 
The walnut and mahogany chests 
are mostly of 18th or early 19th Cen¬ 
tury makes. A fair number of the 
walnut chests, however, have come 
down to us from the latter part of 
the 17th Century during the reign of 
William and Mary. With the excep¬ 
tion of the feet, the molding around 
the base and the slight projection of 
the lid, many of these walnut and 
mahogany chests are perfectly plain. 
Their chief beauty lies in the grain 
and mellow color of the wood, their 
proportions and the extreme simplic¬ 
ity of base and moldings. The 
hinges are usually inside the lid and 
often the rivets come all the way 
through. Handles of brass and 
’scutcheons around the keyhole also 
add a touch of adornment. Some 
of the 18th Century chests have a pair 
of drawers, side by side, just above 
the base. In that event there is gen¬ 
erally a molding course above them. 
Early Examples 
Some of the earlier chests are de¬ 
void of feet or base and plainly in¬ 
dicate by this omission the once 
common custom of carrying them, 
when necessary, from place to place, 
on the backs of sumter horses, ex¬ 
actly as wealthy folk in mediaeval 
times used them for portmanteaux 
and had them transported, filled with 
plate and clothing, from castle to 
castle on their frequent journeys from 
one stronghold to another. Occasion¬ 
ally chests were made separate from 
their bases so that they could be lifted 
off and easily moved when the owner 
went a-traveling. 
Even pairs of chests with a sep¬ 
arate base were made to 
rest one on top of the 
other, sometimes a mold¬ 
ing frame being put on the 
top of the lower to keep 
the base of the upper ex¬ 
actly in place. In such 
cases the lower chest might 
be made with drawers in 
front to avoid removing 
the upper one to reach the 
contents of the lower. 
This was one step in the 
evolution of the chest-of- 
drawers which, after all, 
is only a chest with the lid 
fastened down and the 
front opened up. As many 
as three chests on chests 
are found in this style, 
Early 18th Century oak 
chest with drawers and 
shaped panels of Queen 
Anne type. Possibly Amer- 
i ican, probably English 
making a piece of furniture of im¬ 
posing height quite similar to a high¬ 
boy save that it is solid down to the 
feet. Inside the single chests we 
often find drawers and tills at one 
end and generally a secret drawer was 
contrived somewhere. Not all the 
18th Century low chests are plain by 
any means. Some of the Chippen¬ 
dale chests had not a little carving 
or fretwork embellishment, and are 
very beautiful. 
Should you chance upon an old pine 
chest of good proportions, painted 
or unpainted, do not think of dis¬ 
carding it or of passing it by. It 
may be full of most interesting deco¬ 
rative possibilities. If already painted, 
a little cleaning or judicious retouch¬ 
ing may make it a thing of beauty 
and delight. If unpainted or too far 
gone to restore, a delightful oppor¬ 
tunity presents itself to your ingenu¬ 
ity. It can be painted in the manner 
of the Bavarian or Hungarian peas¬ 
ant furniture and will afford a fasci¬ 
nating bit of color and design. 
Painted Chests 
Hungarian painted furniture has 
much the same general character as 
the Bavarian and the art lends itself 
admirably to the adornment of chests. 
The unique decorative value of such 
chests is not to be despised. Pine 
wood when covered with paint is in 
no wise objectionable. The Adam 
brothers, Sheraton and Hepplewhite 
all frequently used the cheaper woods 
for their painted furniture. Now and 
again in the Middle States, particu¬ 
larly in Pennsylvania, one happens 
upon an old painted chest from the 
Pennsylvania Dutch region, a chest 
that has either been brought overseas 
or else made after the strictest tradi¬ 
tions of the fatherland. 
Some of the Jacobean oak chests 
are highly ornate with carving and 
paneling while others are remarkably 
simple. The greatest diversity like¬ 
wise prevails in point of workmanship 
and in the position of the ornamenta¬ 
tion as may be seen by a glance at 
the two oak chests shown in the illus¬ 
tration which are also in the collec¬ 
tion of the Philadelphia Historical 
Society. The larger betrays a strong 
Flemish influence in the great, flat¬ 
tened cushion feet and the extensive 
employment of small moldings that 
break up the paneling into intricate 
geometrical patterns. It is an ex¬ 
cellent piece of joinery. 
The other chest is equally charac¬ 
teristic of the period though exactly 
opposite in the principles of decora¬ 
tion exemplified. It is distinctly 
architectural in treatment. 
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