Wedding Chest

"The crimson lacquered wedding-chest that was your mother's, to-day has been sold to buy us food." ❋ Mary McNeil Fenollosa (N/A)

Meg's astonishment had increased with the examination of every object -- the carved wooden armchair, which appeared to belong to the best Empire period; the exquisite wedding-chest, of lacquer, the blues and greens of its floral decorations still daringly brilliant and vivid -- they were far brighter and more perfect than any decorations which a faker of antiquities would dare to perpetrate. ❋ Norma Lorimer (1906)

All afternoon I stolidly planted the gray-green young cabbage sprouts behind Bud's hoe and refused even to think about Bess's wedding-chest. ❋ Maria Thompson Daviess (1898)

Elizabethan time; and close by it, placed upon a carved wedding-chest, a large and beautiful melon-shaped lute. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)

You're sitting on my Venetian wedding-chest -- real, too! ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)

He obeyed as gallantly and as cheerfully as if he had been her own age, pulling open the drawers of the cabinets, taking out this curio and that, lifting the lid of the old Venetian wedding-chest that she might herself pry among the velvets and embroideries; she dropping on her knees beside it with all the fluttering joy of a child who had come suddenly upon a box of toys; Phil following them around the room putting in a word here and there, reminding Adam of something he had forgotten, or calling her attention to some object hidden in a shadow that even her quick absorbing glance had overlooked. ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)