For decades, this Bainbridge Island home was shaped by an owner with a genuine eye for quality and a love of gathering beautiful things. Every room tells a piece of her story.

The showstopper is a serpentine-front chest of drawers, believed to date to the late 18th century and passed down through several generations of the same family — its provenance still travels with it, in a yellowed 1978 clipping from Antique Furniture Forum that...