Detail View: The AMICA Library: Chest
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.10.125.685
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Creator Name:
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Dennis, Thomas
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1638-1706
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Thomas Dennis
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Creator Name:
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Searle, William
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1634-1667
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Attributed to William Searle
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Title:
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Chest
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Title Type:
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Object name
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1660-1680
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Creation Start Date:
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1660
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Creation End Date:
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1680
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Materials and Techniques:
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Red oak, white oak
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Classification Term:
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Furniture
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Dimensions:
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29 3/4 x 49 1/8 x 21 3/8 in. (75.6 x 124.8 x 54.3 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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10.125.685
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909
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Rights:
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Context:
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The richest and most vigorous early colonial carving is that associated with the work of William Searle (1634-1667) and Thomas Dennis (1638-1706) of Ipswich. Paired leaves, with a naturalistic, three-dimensional quality rare in American furniture of the period, dominate the panels of this chest; the panels are carved in the popular seventeenth-century design of a stalk of flowers and leaves emerging from an urn, of which only the opening is indicated here. Searle and Dennis came from Devonshire, England, where a tradition of florid carving, using many of the motifs seen on this chest, flourished in the early seventeenth century. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.ad10.125.685.24.R.tif
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