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Cómoda alta

1740–60
Not on view
El mueble colonial más ambicioso y más inconfundiblemente americano es la cómoda alta o highboy, una cómoda inglesa de tablero plano montada sobre patas a la que se ha añadido como remate un frontón partido con volutas. Los primeros ejemplares aparecen en Boston hacia 1730, y la decoración de los más costosos imita la laca japonesa. Esta pieza, única porque se ha conservado junto con una mesa tocador y un espejo a juego, está pintada con un barniz que imita el carey sobre el que se han aplicado motivos dorados de chinoiserie (figuras fantásticas y pabellones de jardín). Manufacturada para Benjamin Pickman, un comerciante de Salem, Massachusetts, es el epítome de la elegancia cosmopolita en la Nueva Inglaterra de la época colonial.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Título: Cómoda alta
  • Fecha: 1730–1760
  • Geografía: Boston, Massachusetts
  • Material: Arce, abedul, pino blanco, pintura, gesso dorado
  • Dimensiones: 219,7 x 101,6 x 54,6 cm
  • Crédito: Compra, legado de Joseph Pulitzer, 1940
  • Número de inventario: 40.37.1
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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