Detail View: The AMICA Library: Bureau table
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.10.125.83
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Creator Name:
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Townsend, John
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1732-1809
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Attributed to John Townsend
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Title:
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Bureau table
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Title Type:
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Object name
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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ca. 1765
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Creation Start Date:
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1763
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Creation End Date:
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1767
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Materials and Techniques:
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Mahogany, chestnut, tulip poplar, white pine
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Classification Term:
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Furniture
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Dimensions:
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34 3/8 x 36 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (87.3 x 92.7 x 52.1 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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10.125.83
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909
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Rights:
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Context:
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In eighteenth-century Newport, a thriving seaport ninety miles south of Boston, local cabinetmakers produced some of the most creative and uniquely American of all colonial furniture. One of their innovations was the introduction of carved, lobed shells to terminate the projecting or receding blocking on the fronts of chests and desks. On this example, a bureau table or kneehole chest, there are four shells in the distinctively elegant and crisp style of the master craftsman John Townsend. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.ad10.125.83..R.tif
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