COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
MMA_.10.125.685
AMICA Library Year:
2000
Object Type:
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Creator Name:
Dennis, Thomas
Creator Dates/Places:
1638-1706
Creator Name-CRT:
Thomas Dennis
Creator Name:
Searle, William
Creator Dates/Places:
1634-1667
Creator Name-CRT:
Attributed to William Searle
Title:
Chest
Title Type:
Object name
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
1660-1680
Creation Start Date:
1660
Creation End Date:
1680
Materials and Techniques:
Red oak, white oak
Classification Term:
Furniture
Dimensions:
29 3/4 x 49 1/8 x 21 3/8 in. (75.6 x 124.8 x 54.3 cm)
AMICA Contributor:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location:
New York, New York, USA
ID Number:
10.125.685
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909
Context:
The richest and most vigorous early colonial carving is that associated with the work of William Searle (1634-1667) and Thomas Dennis (1638-1706) of Ipswich. Paired leaves, with a naturalistic, three-dimensional quality rare in American furniture of the period, dominate the panels of this chest; the panels are carved in the popular seventeenth-century design of a stalk of flowers and leaves emerging from an urn, of which only the opening is indicated here. Searle and Dennis came from Devonshire, England, where a tradition of florid carving, using many of the motifs seen on this chest, flourished in the early seventeenth century.
Related Image Identifier Link:
MMA_.ad10.125.685.24.R.tif
