Chamber or Dressing Table

Gallery 101, American Art, first floor (Kathy and Ted Fernberger Gallery)

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Chamber or Dressing Table

1705-1720

Artist/maker unknown, American

This finely turned dressing table survives with its original decorative stand on an intricately shaped sawn stretcher. Intended to display a ceramic vase or some other ornament, the stand is centered under the arched central skirt cut-out and center pendant drapes, which would have visually framed any ornament displayed. Its "cup" and "trumpet" legs and ball feet are composed of separately turned, vertically joined elements.

Gallery 101, American Art, first floor (Kathy and Ted Fernberger Gallery)

Object Details

Title:

Chamber or Dressing Table

Date:

1705-1720

Artist:

Artist/maker unknown, American

Medium:

Walnut, cedar, tulip poplar, white cedar, yellow pine, brass

Dimensions:

29 3/4 × 33 3/8 × 20 1/8 inches (75.6 × 84.8 × 51.1 cm)

Classification:

Furniture/Furnishings

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Elizabeth S. Shippen Fund, 1925

Accession Number:

1925-69-1

Geography:

Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

Context:

Period: Colonial

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Gallery 101, American Art, first floor (Kathy and Ted Fernberger Gallery)

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