Chest

Chest

A craftsman decorated this pine chest with red paint and stenciled Masonic designs. Stenciled ornaments enjoyed a vogue as decoration on walls, furniture and textiles in the first few decades of the 1800s. The craftsman who stenciled this chest marked it as the property of a Royal Arch chapter with multiple arches on the front and sides. Chapter members would have stored their regalia or other valuable objects in the chest.

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Special Acquisitions Fund, 75.28

ca. 1820