Dressing Table

Unknown maker (Eastern Massachusetts), American, 18th century

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1730-1750

Walnut veneer and maple with pine, brass

Overall: 31 × 34 15/16 × 20 3/8 in. (78.7 × 88.7 × 51.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Louise C. and Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924

F.974.360

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Furniture: Table

Research Area

Decorative Arts

Not on view

Exhibition History

American Decorative Arts at Dartmouth, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 10-March 1, 1981.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 5, 1990.

Publication History

Jacqueline Baas, Treasures of the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985, p. 108, no. 92.

Margaret J. Moody, American Decorative Arts at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: The Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1981, page 1.

Margaret J. Moody, "American Furniture at Dartmouth College", The Magazine ANTIQUES: New York, August 1981, pp. 326-333, ill. figure 9.

Provenance

Shaw Family, Boston, Massachusetts; Frank L. Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988) and Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), Worcester, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1974.

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