Dressing table

American

Not on view

Both this dressing table and its matching high chest (10.125.58) are remarkably well preserved, with their tortoiseshell backgrounds—created by streaking lampblack onto a vermillion ground. The painted decoration, which includes a fantastical dragon and winged swans pulling a chariot with a shell-shaped back, is noticeably different from that on the suite of japanned furniture owned by the Pickman family of Salem (40.37.1, .2, .4).

Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American

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Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American
Dressing table, Japanned maple, white pine, American

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