SUGAR CHEST
1830 – 1860
Northeast Georgia
Yellow pine with original paint
HOA: 33-1/3; WOA: 28-1/4”; DOA: 18-1/4”
MESDA Purchase Fund (acc. 5501)
More utilitarian woods – like the yellow pine of this sugar chest – were often enlivened with paint. This sugar chest was discovered in northeast Georgia roughly a quarter century ago. It typifies the simple, functional, plain-style furniture that filled the homes of Georgia’s middling people. Probably used to securely store sugar, coffee, liquor, and other valuables, its interior is most notable for the small three-compartment till.
