PAINTED DOWER CHEST SIGNED BY JOHN SELTZER

Signed and dated John Seltzer 1808
Jones Town, Dauphin (now Lebanon) County, Pennsylvania

Primary Wood: White Pine
Secondary Woods: Tulip Poplar, White Pine

Height: 24 inches
Width: 51 1/2 inches
Depth: 22 3/4 inches

Reference: A similar chest also signed by John Seltzer, (1774-1845) is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. That chest is dated 1804 and appears in Monroe H. Fabian, The Pennsylvania-German Decorated Chest, page 141, entry 107.

Inventory number: 6538