Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum, Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont, 1966.0664
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Chest of drawers |
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Object numberRIF6565 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions36 1/2 × 40 × 19 in. (92.7 × 101.6 × 48.3 cm) |
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Date17801800 |
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Current locationWinterthur Museum, Garden, and Library |
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GeographyPossibly made in Rhode Island, or possibly made in(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumCherry (primary); white pine (by microanalysis, back, drawers sides, and bottom) |
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MarksNone |
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Inscriptions"$6500," in graphite, on inside bottom of top drawer; "Mama," in ink, on paper label glued on inside drawer sides of third drawer from top; "This is my Bereau [sic] / given me by my / husband / W. G. Boardman / to be kept in the family," in ink, on proper right side of inside drawer sides, third drawer from top |
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ProvenanceWilliam G. Boardman (18531908), Hartford, Connecticut; by gift to his wife Eliza Fowler Root (18571921), Hartford, Connecticut. Henry Francis du Pont (18801969), Winterthur, Delware by 1952; given to the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, Delaware |
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Associated namesHenry Francis du PontWilliam Greenleaf Boardman Eliza Fowler Root |
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See also |
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BibliographyJoseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum (New York: MacMillan Company, 1952), no. 170, ill. |