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Lot # E200

Folk Art Painted Cabinet with Rosemaling-Style Door Panels View Watchlist >

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Lot # E200
System ID # 28143964

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Folk Art Painted Cabinet with Rosemaling-Style Door Panels

Two-door, single-drawer painted wood cabinet of compact form, finished in olive-sage green with coral recessed door panels showcasing hand-applied rosemaling-style folk art. Each ogee-arched panel features scrolling acanthus leaves, circular medallion forms, and feathered flourishes rendered in navy, white, and green — a confident, graphic execution in the Scandinavian-American folk painting tradition popularized through the craft revival movements of the mid-to-late 20th century. Solid wood construction with dovetail joinery, turned wood knobs, and a shaped bracket base.

The decorative paint scheme appears to be a more recent overlay on an older utilitarian cabinet; paint chip evidence at edges and corners reveals multiple underlying paint layers. Lock present but no key; lock untested.


CONDITION

Good overall, presenting strongly from the front with vivid, intact decorative panels. Notable flaws include a vertical crack in the lower side panel, paint loss and chipping at top edges and corners exposing earlier coral and dark paint layers, a circular drill hole on the upper side from a former towel rod, and slight separation of the removable top board at the front edge. Key absent; lock untested.


DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS

  • 30" H × 29.5" W × 15.5" D
  • Top interior shelf clearance: 7.5"
  • Bottom interior shelf clearance: 9"
  • Solid wood, dovetail-jointed drawer
  • Painted finish — olive/sage exterior, coral panels, navy/white/green folk art motifs
  • One drawer over two cabinet doors, single interior shelf
  • Lock present, no key — untested
  • Drill hole on side panel from former towel rod
  • Removable top board