Rare Cherry Sugar Chest

ca. 1825-35

Likely Williamson or Davidson county Tennessee.

Tulip Poplar Secondary Wood.

A well proportioned sugar chest with original dividers, note that lid still has its original lock keeper. Dovetailed box is of desirable single board construction.

For an almost identical sugar chest see: Williamson County More Than A Good Place to Live

by Rick Warwick. Page 89. “This sugar chest is believed to have originated in the John and Susan Blackman Gray family to the George A. and Talitha Gray Kinnie Family of Ash Grove.” The Gray family sugar chest and our Warterman sugar chest both have 3 1/4” wide drawers.

Page 90 has another double balled sugar chest of similar size  and proportions that was made for the marriage of Burwell Lazenby and Elizabeth  Cotton of Granny White Pike, Thomas N. Cotton was the cabinetmaker and brother of the bride.

Rectangular hinged lid with bread board ends and perimeter molding over dovetailed box with three way divider, resting on base with dovetailed drawer and turned and tapered legs ending in distinctive double bulbous feet.  Drawer runners and stops are original.

Provenance: Descended in the family of Charles W. Warterfield, a noted Nashville architect and photographer. The Warterfields were a prominent Nashville  family and owned the Warterfield Grain Company in Union City Tennessee.

Condition: Old mellow refinish, small patch on front of dovetailed case above escutcheon, patch to right side of box. Back of box has 1 1/2” strip added to repair hinge break out. Small patch to back of lid. One wooded pull replaced.

H- 35 1/8”

H (leg)- 13”

W- 29 1/4” (case)

Drawer width: 3 1/4”

D- 16 1/2”

SOLD