About the Artwork
High Chest of Drawers
between 1695 and 1715
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American
American
Maple burl veneer, walnut, cherry, pine, and german silver hardware
Overall: 68 1/2 × 39 × 21 1/8 inches (174 × 99.1 × 53.7 cm)
Furniture
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
65.348
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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“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
Provenance
Grant family (Charleston, Vermont, USA)
Ginsberg and Levy, Inc.
1965-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Margon, L. More American Furniture Treasures, 1620-1840. New York, 1971, pp. 240-241.
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American, High Chest of Drawers, between 1695 and 1715, Maple burl veneer, walnut, cherry, pine, and German silver hardware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 65.348.
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