Details
| Artist | American |
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| Date | between 1695 and 1715 |
| Medium | Maple burl veneer, walnut, cherry, pine, and German silver hardware |
| Dimensions | Overall: 68 1/2 × 39 × 21 1/8 inches (174 × 99.1 × 53.7 cm) |
| Credit Line | Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund |
| Accession Number | 65.348 |
| Department | American Art before 1950 |
| On View | American, Level 2 (see map) |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
| Marks | “V [pointing up],” in chalk, on exterior backs of drawers of upper case; “IIII,” incised on bottom of top drawer of upper case; “2,” in chalk, on exterior back of proper-right small drawer of upper case; “2,” in chalk, on exterior bottom of proper-right small drawer of upper case; “1”, in chalk, on exterior back of proper-left upper drawer of upper case; “III” and “II,” incised on exterior bottoms of bottom two long drawers of upper case [from top to bottom]; “V,” in chalk, on tops of dividers under long drawers of upper case; “RAY” and “Dave” [later], incised on exterior backboards of upper case; “1,” in chalk, on exterior bottom of proper-right drawer of lower case; “V [pointing up]” and “X,” in chalk, on exterior back of middle drawer of lower case; “X,” incised on exterior bottom of middle drawer of lower case; “2,” in chalk, on exterior back of proper-left lower drawer of lower case; history of high chest, written on index cards affixed to proper-left interior side of proper-left drawer of lower case As published by Patricia Kane and Jennifer Johnson in the Yale Rhode Island Furniture Archive |
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Provenance
Grant family (Charleston, Vermont, USA);
Ginsberg and Levy, Inc.;
1965-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Ginsberg and Levy, Inc.;
1965-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Margon, L. More American Furniture Treasures, 1620-1840. New York, 1971, pp. 240-241.
