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Dressing glass

Object number

RIF5025

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

30 × 23 × 10 1/2 in. (76.2 × 58.42 × 26.67 cm)

Date

1735–85

Current location

The Henry Ford

Geography

Made in Massachusetts, Possibly made in Boston, Massachusetts, or possibly made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany; chestnut, white pine

Inscriptions

"Owen - Kipper - 4/21/29," in graphite, on exterior back of right drawer

Provenance

The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan

Associated names

Joe Kindig, Jr.

Bibliography

Helen Comstock, American Furniture: Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles (New York: Viking Press, 1962), fig. 501.