Cupboard (Court cupboard)

Museum Object Number 1957.0542

Object Name

Cupboard (Court cupboard)

Category

Furniture

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont

Place of Origin

Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Date

1684

Materials

Oak, red; Maple; Paint

Dimensions (inches)

53.625 (H) , 48.5 (W) , 20.375 (D)

Dimensions (centimeters)

136.21 (H) , 123 (W) , 51.75 (D)

Measurement Notes

OH to front right corner of upper case; OW at lower case shelf; OD to upper case turnings. W (top, upper case) 48.125.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Article] Trent, Robert F., et al. 2001 "First Flowers of the Wilderness: Mannerist Furniture from a North Essex County, Massachusetts, Shop". American Furniture. 1-64.
• fig. 40, pp. 26-28. Trent et al. do no attribute this cupboard to Thomas Dennis, but to an unidentified northern Essex County shop.
[Article] Park, Helen. 10//1960 The Seventeenth-Century Furniture of Essex County and its Makers. Antiques. 78 (4): 350-55.
• fig. 9, pp. 353-54
[Article] Lyon, Irving P. 04//1938 The Oak Furniture of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Part 4. Antiques. 33 (4): 198-203.
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[Book] Nutting, Wallace. 1928 Furniture Treasury.
• fig. 445.