Product Description: An oak blanket chest, the moulded edge top, above a paneled back and sides, the front carved with ovals and lozenges on stile supports with ogee spandrels. The original English, circa 1650.

Collection Features: In the main passage of the private wing of Althorp stands the Washington Chest, a piece of oak furniture which the local priest, in 1877, authenticated as having belonged to the Washington's before emigration to America.