Furniture
Symonds Shop (Maker)
Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
1679
Oak, red; Maple, soft; Maple, sugar; Pine, white
1957.0540
Object Number1957.0540 |
Chest of drawers (Spice box or chest)
Furniture
Gift of Henry Francis du Pont
Symonds Shop (Maker)
Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
1679
Oak, red; Maple, soft; Maple, sugar; Pine, white
16.875 (H) , 17.325 (W) , 9.125 (D)
42.86 (H) , 44.01 (W) , 23.18 (D)
OH at back corners; OW and OD at top
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[Article] Willoughby, Martha H. 2000 "Patronage in Early Salem: The Symonds Shops and Their Customers". American Furniture. 2000: 169-84.
• fig. 4, pp. 170-71, 180
[Catalogue] Christie's, Inc. 2000 "The Joseph and Bathsheba Pope Valuables Cabinet", New York, January 21, 2000.
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[Chapter] Trent, Robert F. "The Symonds Shops of Essex County, Massachusetts" [Book] 1989 The American Craftsman and the European Tradition. 23-41.
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[Thesis] Forman, Benno M. 1968 "The Seventeenth-Century Case Furniture of Essex County". M.A. University of Delaware Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
• pp. 111-13
[Book] St. George, Robert Blair. 1998 Conversing By Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture.
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[Chapter] Trent, Robert F. The Endicott Armchair, the Hart Cabinet, and Helen Jacques [Book] Ward, Gerald W. R. & Warner, Pat. 06//2018 American History, Art and Culture: Writings in Honor of Jonathan Leo Fairbanks. 22-27.
• Published: p. 24, fig. 4