File:Desk and bookcase MET DT167.jpg
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Desk and bookcase |
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Object type | Desk and bookcase | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
Made in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Mahogany, chestnut, white pine, yellow pine, tulip poplar, cedar. 99 1/8 x 44 1/8 x 25 3/4 in. (251.8 x 112.1 x 65.4 cm). The most famous pieces of furniture made by the leading cabinetmaking families of Newport, the Townsends and the Goddards, are the desks and bookcases with block fronts and six or nine shells. On these, the tripartite division of the blocked drawer fronts, terminating in large shells on the fall front, is continued upward on the bookcase unit in three hinged doors covering an array of cubbyholes. These monumental work stations were also symbols of their owners' business achievements. Thus, for example, each of the four Brown brothers, the leading merchants in late-eighteenth-century Providence, Rhode Island, had one. |
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Date | 1760–90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mahogany, chestnut, white pine, yellow pine, tulip poplar, cedar |
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Dimensions | 99 1/8 x 44 1/8 x 25 3/4 in. (251.8 x 112.1 x 65.4 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q160236 |
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American Decorative Arts |
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Accession number |
15.21.2 |
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Credit line | Rogers Fund, 1915 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/3141
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