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Six-board chests were a common seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century furniture form in the New England colonies and were an alternative to more costly joined chests. Regularly they were embellished with crease moldings and decorative scribing and punching, and in some regions the skirt was elaborately shaped. (1) However, in the New Haven region of coastal Connecticut a variation of this form was constructed. Here craftsmen chose to decorate six-board chests with applied moldings and ornaments so they would give the appearance of a joined chest (sec Pl. II).
Patricia E. Kane was the first to delve into the seventeenth-century furniture-making traditions in ...