Chest

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

1805–20

Artist unknown (American, 19th century)
Albany County, New York

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Chest
Place: Albany County (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1805–1820
Medium: White pine and painted decoration
Inscriptions: Painted initials below tulip: "C" and "N"
Dimensions: 54 × 124.4 × 46.6 cm (21 1/4 × 49 × 18 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Juli and David Grainger Fund
Reference Number: 1986.191
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Mary Antoine de Julio, German Folk Arts of New York State, exh. cat. (Albany Institute of History and Art, 1985) 9 (ill.).
Mary Antoine de Julio, “New York–German Painted Chests,” Magazine Antiques 77:5 (May 1985), 1156–65 (ill.).
J.P. Firsthoffer, “Chicago Americana Collection: A Quiet Giant,” Antiques Monthly 20, 12 (December 1987), 1, 7 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), 58 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012), no. 13.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Decade of Decorative Arts, Nov. 12, 1986–Jan. 4, 1987, cat. 46.

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