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The Tennessee sugar chest was first introduced to readers of The Magazine ANTIQUES nearly seventy years ago in the first serious article on the subject ever to appear outside the South. (1) So it seems appropriate that new discoveries of this peculiarly southern furniture form should be discussed in the pages of this magazine.
Within the small group of antebellum furniture forms most common in the South, the sugar chest in its many variations remains the most coveted by Tenessee collectors. Indeed the possessions of the family sugar chest has been known to divide heirs into enemy camps. Long after the price of sugar had fallen, the sugar chest remained a revered ...