1790 to 1840 Sugar Chest

This would appear to be a late example of a "Sugar Chest on Stand", the "Jenny Lind" style spooled edging treatment pn began to appear in the 1830's and to peak in the 1850's after Singer Jenny Lind's image was used with furniture of this type. Jenny was the first international superstar of the musical world. The hoopla in the press over her visit to the United States in 1850 surpassed that of the “British Invasion” of the Beatles a century later. Yet those who met the “Swedish Nightingale” described her as being incredibly modest and generous. She gave large sums of money to charities and the poor, and regularly gave free concerts to Swedish churches in America—including one at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’ Church), in the Philadelphia suburb of Southwark (now Queen Village). Values for pieces like this last peaked in the 1990's, to more accurately date this one please remove the screws from the lock and post some images of them.

The screws are of a type that were not invented until 1849, so this one dates from the 1850's at the earliest. The drawer construction and repair indicates it's not a reproduction.