Furniture and Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka

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Title

Estate chest

Subject

Furniture

Source

Lunuganga Trust, Lunuganga

Date

1800-1899

Relation

Detail, of drawers
Detail, gbl_77_1

Identifier

gbl.77

FDASL Item Type Metadata

Period

19th century

Place of Creation

SW Sri Lanka

Measurements (H: W: L:)

118.7 x 238.8 x 44.5 cm.(46 3/4 x 94 x 17 1/2 in.)

Materials

Jacwood

Techniques

Joined

Features

Estate chest of forty small drawers, each with brass pulls, mounted on a base with shaped apron, bulbous, turned legs.

Citation

"Estate chest," online in Digital Library for International Research Archive, Item #759, http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/759 (accessed May 4, 2026).

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