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The
Parlor--The "Red Chest."
William Snawsell owned a red chest, willed to him by his grandmother Alice
in 1429. Barley Hall's red chest is modeled on a late fourteenth-century Flemish
chest (originally colored red) now in a church near Ripon, North Yorkshire.
Such
chests were cherished heirlooms, used for storing clothing, linen, andother
valuable items. Constructed of quarter-sawn oak, painted with red ochre pigment
on a rabbit skin glue base.
Presented by the Friends of York Archaeological Trust.
Photos copyright York Archaeological Trust; used with permission.
