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A10: Massachusetts Dining Room, 1795

Miniature dining room with mint-green walls and two large windows on the back wall, between which hangs a portrait of a Revolutionary-era man flanked by two vases. A formal wooden table with two chairs sits in the room's center, a fireplace with a mirror on the mantle and two tall stools at left.
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  • Miniature dining room with mint-green walls and two large windows on the back wall, between which hangs a portrait of a Revolutionary-era man flanked by two vases. A formal wooden table with two chairs sits in the room's center, a fireplace with a mirror on the mantle and two tall stools at left.

Date:

c. 1940

Artist:

Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne
American, 1882-1966

About this artwork

Status

On View, Gallery 11

Department

Applied Arts of Europe

Artist

Narcissa Niblack Thorne (Designer)

Title

A10: Massachusetts Dining Room, 1795

Place

United States (Object made in)

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Made 1937–1940

Medium

Miniature room, mixed media

Dimensions

Scale 1 inch = 1 foot: 30 × 60 × 47.5 cm (11 13/16 × 23 5/8 × 18 3/4 in.); Interior, Scale 1 inch = 1 foot: 30.5 × 61 × 48.3 cm (12 × 24 × 19 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne

Reference Number

1942.490

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