Chest-of-Drawers
ca. 1770
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Caption
Chest-of-Drawers, ca. 1770. Mahogany, white pine, brass, 32 1/4 x 35 3/4 x 22 in. (82.6 x 90.8 x 55.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Matthew Scott Sloan Collection, Gift of Lidie Lane Sloan McBurney, 1997.150.20. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Title
Chest-of-Drawers
Date
ca. 1770
Geography
Place made: Massachusetts, United States
Medium
Mahogany, white pine, brass
Classification
Dimensions
32 1/4 x 35 3/4 x 22 in. (82.6 x 90.8 x 55.9 cm)
Credit Line
Matthew Scott Sloan Collection, Gift of Lidie Lane Sloan McBurney
Accession Number
1997.150.20
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This is a chest of drawers made around the year 1770. It is in what's known as the Chippendale style, after the London cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, whose published designs were copied by furniture makers living and working in Colonial America. The ball and claw feet are one of his signatures!
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