Antique Scandinavian Baroque Folk Art Carved Pine Dowry Chest / Trunk / Coffer, circa 1780 Sold the frame enclosing a beveled

the frame enclosing a beveled arched mirror

Each door encloses a miniature portrait

The lowboy is raised on cabriole legs terminating to pad feet

the chairs are raised on straight legs

one cowboy sitting between a fence the other crouched with his rifle pointing skyward

Antique Scandinavian Baroque Folk Art Carved Pine Dowry Chest / Trunk / Coffer, circa 1780 Sold the frame enclosing a beveledA 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