19th C. Blue-Gray Painted Pine Chest with Square Iron Nails, As Found carved object Oil on artist board

Oil on artist board

Made by hand entirely of lead

Berks County

depending on point of view

wonderful matte red and black paint

19th C. Blue-Gray Painted Pine Chest with Square Iron Nails, As Found carved object Oil on artist boardThis one is old. And with a really sweet and special feeling about it, too. I imagine there were once two small, short drawers that fit into the niches at top long gone, but one doesn't really miss them. I'm not sure the story with the paint across the front of the two existing drawers, but it is definitely old too I think of the same period as the gray, which is original to it; perhaps the maker was considering a more decorative treatment but decided