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Chest

1650–80

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774

Chests used for household storage were common in seventeenth-century homes. This lift-top chest is embellished with carved motifs that are characteristic of the decorative vocabulary of the earliest New Haven joiners, including the carved arches in the panels, the lunettes on the upper rail, the paired leaves on the lower rail, and the rosettes on the stiles.

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Title: Chest

Date: 1650–80

Geography: Made in New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Culture: American

Medium: Red oak, white oak

Dimensions: 29 x 61 x 21 3/4 in. (73.7 x 154.9 x 55.2 cm)

Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. George Clarke Bryant, in memory of her husband, 1947

Accession Number: 47.133.3

Chronology

The United States, 1600-1800 A.D.

The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. I, Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles

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