Chest 001

Chest 001

The chest has the form of a horizontal cuboid, covered with a flat lid with a slightly profiled cornice, mounted on 4 wheels. The lid, front and sides are painted brown, grain finished. A stylized, fantastic flower arrangement is on the front. It rests on an arched base, consisting of white and brown-maroon twigs finished with teardrop-shaped flowers and dots. It is placed on a separated dark green, square field, outlined by a white frame, in the corners of which white, volute-twisted, double plant twigs are painted. The pattern is one of the typical motifs painted on the chests from the Sokołów carpentry center, being a compilation of an archaic pattern of volute twigs hanging in the corners of two frames and the later motif of fantastic flowers. It had an aesthetic function, and at the same time it was to symbolize the wealth of the bride's dowry.

?Item: Sokołów single-field hope chest

Material, technique: pine wood, tenon joint;pattern painted with distemper

Dimensions: height 82 cm, width 103 cm, depth 52 cm

Creation time: the end of the 19th century

Origin: Alfredówka

Owner: The Folk Museum in Kolbuszowa