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Table (Dressing table)
Dressing table
Seth Pancoast
1765-1775
Category
Furniture
Creator/Artist/Maker
Seth Pancoast (Maker)
Place of Origin
Marple Township; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Maple
- Chestnut
- Tulip poplar
- Brass
Museum Object Number
2012.0011
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase with funds drawn from the Centenary Fund and partial gift of the Mickel Family and Curtis Fenstermacher
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Object Number
2012.0011
Object Name
Table (Dressing table)
Title
Dressing table
Category
Furniture
Creator (Role)
Seth Pancoast (Maker)
Place of Origin
Marple Township; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Origin Notes
Made in Marple Township, Chester (now Delaware) County, PA.
Date
1765-1775
Materials
- Maple
- Chestnut
- Tulip poplar
- Brass
Dimensions (inches)
30.5 (H) x 36.625 (W) x 23.875 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
77.47 (H) x 93.027 (W) x 60.642 (D)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Cooper, Wendy A. & Minardi, Lisa. Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania 1725-1850.
• Published: p. 123, fig. 3.8.Article: Powers, A. Nicholas. 2018 Friends in High Places: Quaker Furniture Makers in Virginia's Northern Shenandoah Valley. Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts.
• Published: fig. 8