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Title: Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin. Number 23, July 1908
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art--Periodicals
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
Contributing Library: University of the Arts (Philadelphia), University Libraries
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me of AlexanderHamilton. The service rendered to his country by Robert Morris was second to none.Even Washington, at times, must have been impotent to carry on the war hadnot Morris supplied the means, often out of his own private hoard. And yetthis man, having met with misfortune in land speculation, spent over three 44 BULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM years in a debtors prison, without receiving any relief, and died at the age ofseventy-three, ruined and broken-hearted. The truly regal gown worn by his wife, evidently in the very height ofRobert Morris days of prosperity, acquires a touch of pathos from the historyof the man whose life she shared. S. Y. S. ANTIQUE CHEST Probably the most interesting article of furniture that has resisted theravages of time and been preserved for us from mediaeval times is the chest.Not only is its beauty a charm, but it usually has the added attractiveness ofpersonal or ecclesiastical association to make it a worthy object of the collectorsfancy.
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OLD ENGLISH OAK CHESTDated 1655 The earliest chests seem to have been of an ecclesiastical nature, used forthe storing of the sacred vestments and vessels, and are still most jealouslyguarded in the parish churches for which they were originally made. These BULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM 45 chests belong to the Gothic period, and it was during the Gothic influence thatthe finest and most artistic oak carving was produced. About the earliest datethat we have for such a chest in England is 1190, a most interesting specimenshowing the decorative uses to which iron was put at that time. By the seventeenth century the chest had reached the utilitarian stage that itholds to-day, when it was every housewifes need, and every brides hope. Tothis period belongs the one recently acquired by the Museum, which is figuredin the accompanying illustration. This chest shows no great elaboration of carving, but the quiet sim-plicity of the design gives it a dignity and charm that make it very attr

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