Speed Art Museum
October 9- December 2, 2007
The first exhibition ever devoted to Kentucky sugar chests; this exhibition presents more than 40 outstanding examples of chests, desks and similar forms.
One of America's most distinctive groups of furniture forms, sugar furniture (sugar chests, desks, boxes and related types), arose during the very late eighteenth century in America's post- pioneer western frontier.
In all of their various forms, these pieces were devoted to protecting sugar, a costly commodity in the region at the time. These beautiful pieces would be placed in the dining room or parlor of a home for all to see.
The iconic sugar chest kept the expensive sugar close at hand for sweetening the tea, coffee, mixed drinks, and alcoholic punches that lubricated the social rituals of the day.
Admission to this exhibition is free.
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