LINEN PRESS

Fancy painting like that on this linen press enlivened otherwise utilitarian furniture made of common woods, like yellow pine.  Daubs of orange and yellow paint on each door panel run in alternating diagonal and vertical patterns.  The piece is entirely constructed of circular-sawn yellow pine.  It was one of two discovered in a house in Stephens County, Georgia more than a quarter-century ago.  The attachment of its carrot-shaped feet to boards that run the depth of the case links this piece to a group of bureaus and blanket chest with histories in neighboring Franklin County.