Antique Scandinavian Baroque Folk Art Carved Pine Dowry Chest / Trunk / Coffer, circa 1780 Sculpture James Nelson Raymond Traveling Fellowship

James Nelson Raymond Traveling Fellowship

who taught him "the delicacy of colors"

and the cabinet raised on bracket feet

signed to the upper left "F Norman

Tom Fawkes taught at the University of Oregon and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the 1960s

Antique Scandinavian Baroque Folk Art Carved Pine Dowry Chest / Trunk / Coffer, circa 1780 Sculpture James Nelson Raymond Traveling FellowshipA 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