Grain-painted "Matteson" Blanket Chest
Maker
Unknown, American
Additional Title(s)
- A Federal Grain Painted “Matteson” Pine Blanket Chest
Collections
ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Dateca. 1820-1825
Mediumpine, paint, and glass
Dimensions36 × 40 3/4 × 18 in. (91.4 × 103.5 × 45.7 cm.)
DescriptionVibrantly painted blanked chest; this chest represents the early nineteenth-century rural Vermont “high style.” The faux grain painting in red, green, brown and black resembles mahogany, satinwood, flame birch, tiger maple and bird’s eye maple veneers seen on fashionable federal furniture. This blanket chest stands on high cut out tapered feet with a carved skirt. The lower single drawer with thumbnail molding has glass pulls and the upper blanket chest has a lift top.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Jonathan and Karin Fielding
Status
On viewObject number2020.15.11
William Blake
ca. 1801
Object number: 000.26
