Clothes Press
Artist/Maker
Bulitschek, Joseph (attr.)
Place Made
Salem or Bethabara, North Carolina
Date Made
1772-1780
Medium
yellow pine, poplar, and paint (replaced
Dimensions
WOA 65 1/2; HOA 83; DOA 20 1/4
Accession Number
415
Description
A pine outset-panel two-door, two drawer clothes press, one side of which is adapted for hanging clothes pegs and the the other for shelves. The doors are hinged with rat-tail type hinges. The top moldings are missing, as well as the ends of a molding around the skirt (above the drawers) of the piece. The two back straight bracket feet are also missing.
Wardrobe or Schrank. Originally painted blue with red pencilling of molded elements. Pine outset-panel two-door, two drawer clothes press, one side of which is adapted for hanging cloths pegs, the other for shelves. The doors are hinged with rat-tail type hinges.
History
Wardrobe or Schrank. Originally painted blue with red pencilling of molded elements. Pine outset-panel two-door, two drawer clothes press, one side of which is adapted for hanging cloths pegs, the other for shelves. The doors are hinged with rat-tail type hinges. See Collections record.
Credit Line
Old Salem Collection
