Object Number 1960.0045

Object Name

Cupboard (Hanging or wall cupboard)

Category

Furniture

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

Savell Shop (Maker)
Furniture attributed to the Savell Shop (as of 1996) consisted of ten joined chests, a fragment of a joined cupboard, three boxes, and a stool. (See Follansbee and Alexander, "The Savell Shop Tradition," American Furniture (1996), pp. 81-104.

Place of Origin

Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Origin Notes

Formerly erroneously identified as a product of the Savell shop tradition, Braintree, MA. Peter Follansbee attributes this cupboard to a yet-to-be-identified joiner working in Hingham or Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA

Date

1640-1670

Materials

Pine, white; Oak, red

Construction Description

Cupboard has clear evidence of drawboring - pegs are driven through holes intentionally offset, which made the joints draw together tightly.

Dimensions (inches)

30 (H) , 32.5 (W) , 19.5 (D)

Dimensions (centimeters)

76.2 (H) , 82.55 (W) , 49.53 (D)

Measurement Notes

OW and OD at cornice.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Article] Follansbee, Peter & Alexander, John D. 1996 "Seventeenth-Century Joinery from Braintree, Massachusetts: The Savell Shop Tradition". American Furniture. 1996: 81-104.
• figs. 2, 5-6, pp. 83-85
[Article] Follansbee, Peter. 2002 "Manuscripts, Marks, and Material Culture: Sources for Understanding the Joiner's Trade in Seventeenth-Century America". American Furniture. 2002: 125-146.
• figs. 28-29, pp. 137-38