Antique Federal Period Southern Figured Walnut Sugar Chest With Single Drawer

  With our absolute highest compliments Bay Colony Antiques takes the utmost pleasure in offering this important and rare antique sugar chest. These exceptional antique storage chests were designed for southern homes below Maryland and as far west as the Mississippi River during the second half of the 18th century and into the early period of the 19th century. They are designed to hold blocks of sugar and to be secured when the owner is not present so that children or household servants did not pilfer any sugar without permission. Only wealthy patrons had need of sugar chests as the commodity was a luxury several centuries ago and it was uncommon for most households to keep such a large supply at one time. Antique sugar chests have always been among the very rarest American furniture forms to exist, and the passing of time has only fueled scarcity amongst collectors of early southern history. As northeastern based antique dealers we seldomly find these chests in the homes which we pur