Antique Scandinavian Baroque Folk Art Carved Pine Dowry Chest / Trunk / Coffer, circa 1780 Sculpture The screens having brass stems

The screens having brass stems with turned finials mounted with adjustable shield-shaped screens with the original needlepoint

5 cm X 71 cm (low: 56 cm

subsequently destroyed in the great Chicago fire of 1871

and Windsor

a pair of curved bentwood arms and a slatted seat

Antique Scandinavian Baroque Folk Art Carved Pine Dowry Chest / Trunk / Coffer, circa 1780 Sculpture The screens having brass stemsA very good antique Scandinavian carved Baroque Folk Art dowry chest, circa 1780. The chest having a gently domed top with a hinged lid having the original 'snipe' hinges, the edge of the lid having carved gadrooning. To the front of the chest there are large and deeply carved geometric devices, to the center is a large hand cut steel lock and hasp. Both sides of the chest having hand forged iron carrying handles within a deeply carved lozenge design