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On Display: House - Hart Room
Chest of drawers (Spice box or chest)
Symonds Shop
1679
Category
Furniture
Creator/Artist/Maker
Symonds Shop (Maker)
Place of Origin
Salem; Massachusetts; Essex; New England; United States; North America
Materials
- Oak, red
- Maple, soft
- Maple, sugar
- Pine, white
Museum Object Number
1957.0540
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1957.0540
Object Name
Chest of drawers (Spice box or chest)
Category
Furniture
Creator (Role)
Symonds Shop (Maker)
Place of Origin
Salem; Massachusetts; Essex; New England; United States; North America
Date
1679
Materials
- Oak, red
- Maple, soft
- Maple, sugar
- Pine, white
Dimensions (inches)
16.875 (H) x 17.325 (W) x 9.125 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
42.86 (H) x 44.01 (W) x 23.18 (D)
Measurement Notes
OH at back corners; OW and OD at top
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
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, 180Catalogue: Christie's, Inc. 2000 "The Joseph and Bathsheba Pope Valuables Cabinet", New York, January 21, 2000.
Chapter: Trent, Robert F. "The Symonds Shops of Essex County, Massachusetts". Book: 1989 The American Craftsman and the European Tradition. 23-41.
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. 111-13Book: St. George, Robert Blair. 1998 Conversing By Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture.
• Published.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