Chest (c. 1700): Art, History and Details
Chest at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1700, oak and pine. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Chest (c. 1700) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This lift-top chest, with its decorative panels defined by moldings, may be associated with furniture made by John Symonds and his sons of Salem, Massachusetts. The thin, "split spindle" decorations are made by gluing two separate pieces of wood together and then splitting them after turning (shaping on a lathe).
Object facts
- Title: Chest
- Date: c. 1700
- Culture: America, Massachusetts, perhaps Salem, 18th century
- Type: Furniture and woodwork
- Technique: oak and pine
- Dimensions: Overall: 77.5 x 115.3 x 53.7 cm (30 1/2 x 45 3/8 x 21 1/8 in.)
- Collection: Furniture
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Accession number: 1984.161
Collection credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Further reading listed by the museum
- Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1984.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163–207.
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