About the Artwork
Secretary
18th century
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English
English
Wood, black varnish, gold, mirror glass, gilt bronze
Overall: 43 3/8 × 40 3/8 × 23 3/4 inches (110.2 × 102.6 × 60.3 cm) Overall: 47 1/4 × 40 5/8 × 13 5/8 inches (120 × 103.2 × 34.6 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mrs. Lendall Pitts
58.374
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
James Bowdoin
Elizabeth Pitts Warner
Jonathan Warner
Elizabeth Warner Pitts Cazeau
Justice Henry B. Brown
Pitts Duffield
Mrs. Helen Pitts Parker Mrs. Elizabeth McCord Pitts
1958-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Eight Generations of the Pitts Family. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1959, p. 55, no. 54 (ill.).
"Antiques." Antiques. (January 1960): (ill.).
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English, Secretary, 18th century, wood, black varnish, gold, mirror glass, gilt bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Lendall Pitts, 58.374.
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