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For reproduction requests or more information, contact DAPC at reference@winterthur.org."},{"label":"Owner's Accession Number","value":"40.37.2"},{"label":"Credit","value":"Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1940"},{"label":"Current Owner","value":"Metropolitan Museum of Art"},{"label":"Subjects (AAT)","value":["Dressing tables","Low chests"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Dressing tables"]},{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Article: Tara Hingston Cederholm and Christine Palmer Thomson, \"'Tortoiseshell & Gold': Robert Davis and the Art of Japanning in Eighteenth-Century Boston,\" in Boston Furniture 1700-1900, ed. Brock Jobe and Gerald W. R. Ward (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2016), 74.  Book: Marshall B. Davidson, The American Heritage History of Colonial Antiques (New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1967), 148, fig. 193.  Article: Joseph Down, \"American Japanned Furniture,\" Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 35, no. 7 (July 1940): 145-8.  Book: Dean A. Fales, Jr.,?áAmerican Painted Furniture, 1660-1880 (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1972), 68, fig. 98.  Article: Dean A. Fales, Jr., \"Boston Japanned Furniture,\" in?áBoston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century (Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1974):?á49-69, fig. 43.  Book: Morrison H.?áHeckscher, American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 2,?á?áLate Colonial Period: The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles, ed. Mary-Alice Rogers (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Random House, 1985), 241, 243, no. 156.  Article: Morrison H. Heckscher, Frances Gruber Safford, and Peter Lawrence Fodera, \"Boston Japanned Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,\"?á?áAntiques?á129, no. 5 (May 1986): 1046-61, pl. III.  Book: Irving Whitall Lyon,?áThe Colonial Furniture of New England: A Study of the Domestic Furniture in Use in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1977), 89, fig. 39.  Online resource: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collections, http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection (accessed April 13, 2016), 40.37.2.  Article: Lydia Bond Powel, \"The American Wing,\" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin n.s. 12, no. 7 (March 1954): 194-216."},{"label":"Exhibition History","value":"Exhibition: \"American Japanned Furniture,\" The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, March 20-April 30, 1933)."},{"label":"History of Ownership","value":"According to family tradition, the table was originally owned by Benjamin Pickman (1708-1773), a merchant in Salem, Massachusetts. He married Love Rawlins in 1731, and in 1750 they moved into the great house at 165 Essex Street, Salem, where the table is said to have been used. The table likely descended to Pickman's son Benjamin Pickman (1740-1819), to his son Thomas Pickman (1773-1817), to his daughter, Mary Pickman Loring, who married George Bailey Loring of Salem in 1851. The table was eventually inherited by Lawrence Dwight (died 1918) and passed after his death to his fianc??e, Harriet Amory (later Mrs. Warwick Potter) of New York, who sold it to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1940."},{"label":"Associated Objects","value":"Part of a set with a high chest of drawers and a looking glass, all japanned by the same hand and descended in the same family; see DAPC_1987-0051 for the high chest of drawers and DAPC_1987-0053 for the looking glass."},{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Height 29.75 in. (75.6 cm), Width 33.75 in. (85.7 cm), Depth 21.125 in. (53.7 cm), Case width 30 in. (76.2 cm), Case depth 17.875 in. (45.4 cm), Width at feet 31 in. (78.7 cm), Depth at feet 18.625 in. (47.3 cm)"},{"label":"Description","value":"A Queen Anne-style japanned dressing table constructed of maple, birch, and white pine. The top has notched front corners and quarter-round molding around the edges. The case has a row of two drawers over a row of three drawers; the drawers have quarter-round molding around the edges. Each drawer except the lower central drawer has a bail pull on an engraved escutcheon. The lower central drawer has an inset blocked front with an arched top, containing a carved shell with swags coming from behind the shell to the base of the shell. The skirt is flat arched, with three arches along the front and a single arch on each side, is edged with cock-bead molding, and has turned and carved acorn pendants. The cabriole legs have scrolled knee brackets, creased knees, and pad feet.  The table is japanned with a vermilion and black ground. One upper drawer has two huts among foliage; the other has a hut and a bridge. The lower outer drawers both have a bridge leading over a stream to a pagoda, though they are not identical. The lower central drawer has cherubs flanking the gilded shell. The posts and front skirt have a floral border. The pendants are gilded. The sides have flowers, and the legs have foliate designs.  The white pine sides and back are double pegged to the posts; the white pine front skirt is also pegged to the posts. The white pine rails and vertical dividers are slotted into each other and into the posts and skirt. The drawer bottoms have attached runners. The uncarved drawer fronts are maple; the carved drawer front is white pine. The legs are birch.  The japanning has suffered widespread flaking and subsequent crude overpainting; it was stabilized in 1983-84. In 1940, the top board was replaced and pendant brackets were added to the skirt. The top was based on a Boston japanned dressing table from the same period; the brackets were based on the surviving originals on the matching high chest of drawers. In 1978, cock-bead molding and pendants were added to the skirt; the former based on nail holes in the bottom of the skirt and the latter copied from a gilded-shell dressing table. The front left and rear left knee brackets are also replacements."},{"label":"Date Digitized","value":"7/20/2018"},{"label":"Materials","value":"Maple; Birch; White pine; Brass; Paint; Gesso; Gilding"},{"label":"Style","value":["Queen Anne"]},{"label":"Basis of Date","value":"Date range provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1730 - D:00 M:00 Y:1760"},{"label":"Basis of Origin","value":"Place of origin identified as Boston by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985 and 2016, and by Brock Jobe, 2015."},{"label":"Place of Origin","value":"Boston, Massachusetts"},{"label":"Other Name","value":"Dressing bureau; Toilet table; Vanity; Lowboy; Low chest of drawers"},{"label":"Object Type","value":["Table"]},{"label":"Object Use","value":"Support furniture"},{"label":"Category","value":"Furniture"},{"label":"Title","value":"Dressing table"},{"label":"Date Modified","value":"7/20/2018"}],"description":"Dressing table","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6111ee3d-864b-43b6-b9a3-7946b363f380/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1987-0056-001","height":1481,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f815a5be-5194-4a8e-a196-ed42a5b00d3c/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f815a5be-5194-4a8e-a196-ed42a5b00d3c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1481,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6111ee3d-864b-43b6-b9a3-7946b363f380/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f815a5be-5194-4a8e-a196-ed42a5b00d3c/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6111ee3d-864b-43b6-b9a3-7946b363f380/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1987-0056-002","height":1388,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/274fa302-107c-4387-beb0-51ae1de5861c/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/274fa302-107c-4387-beb0-51ae1de5861c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":1388,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6111ee3d-864b-43b6-b9a3-7946b363f380/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/274fa302-107c-4387-beb0-51ae1de5861c/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f815a5be-5194-4a8e-a196-ed42a5b00d3c/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}