Set of Firestools with Dolphin-shaped Handles

Unknown American, American

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about 1820

Iron and brass

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. William Dexter

M.965.90.31

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Furniture: Seating

Research Area

Decorative Arts

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by George Ticknor (1791-1871), Boston, Massachusetts, date unknown; to his daughter, Eliza (Mrs. William) Sullivan Ticknor Dexter (1833-1880), about 1871; to her son, Philip Dexter (1868-1934), about 1880; to his son, William Dexter (1897-1943), about 1934; to his wife, Constance Van Rensselaer Thayer Dexter (1900-1976), 1943; given to Dartmouth College, 1943; catalogued by present collection, 1965.

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