Cupboard

American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 708

Said to have been owned by Governor Robert Treat (ca. 1622–1710) of Milford, this cupboard represents the school of joinery that produced the most sophisticated case pieces in seventeenthcentury Connecticut. It has a prominent paneled door and sides with central cruciform and is decorated with applied bosses and half spindles. The applied decoration was made of several different woods, which originally gave the piece a livelier, varicolored surface.

Cupboard, Oak, walnut, chestnut, cedar, maple, American

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Cupboard, Oak, walnut, chestnut, cedar, maple, American
Cupboard, Oak, walnut, chestnut, cedar, maple, American
Cupboard, Oak, walnut, chestnut, cedar, maple, American
Cupboard, Oak, walnut, chestnut, cedar, maple, American

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