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    Collection Objects
    American Decorative Arts

    Looking Glass

    Maker, attributed to: John Doggett, American, 1780–1857
    Date: 
    1802–25
    Medium: 

    Eastern white pine, birch, gilding, and silvered plate glass

    Accession Number: 
    1931.316
    Culture: 
    American
    Period: 
    19th century
    Classification: 
    Furniture
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    American Paintings and Sculpture

    Mt. Ktaadn

    Artist: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
    Date: 
    1853
    Medium: 

    Oil on canvas

    Accession Number: 
    1969.71
    Culture: 
    American
    Period: 
    19th century
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    American Decorative Arts

    Desk and Bookcase

    Maker, attributed to: Daniel Spencer, 1741–1796
    Date: 
    1772–90
    Medium: 

    Mahogany; light-colored, possibly Honduran or Santo Domingan, mahogany; fluted quarter columns, cornice moldings, finials, front of writing slide and drawer dividers, base molding, feet, much darker, possibly Cuban, mahogany; interior of bookcase and sides, backs, and bottoms of pigeonhole valance drawers, American black cherry (previously published many times as yellow poplar); drawer linings, with one exception, other elements, chestnut; bottom of bottom desk drawer, other elements, eastern white pine; some repairs, yellow pine

    Accession Number: 
    1940.320
    Culture: 
    American
    Period: 
    18th century
    Classification: 
    Furniture
    Status: 
    On view*
    Collection Objects
    American Paintings and Sculpture

    Comfort Starr Mygatt (1763–1823) and Lucy Mygatt (1794–1885)

    Artist: John Brewster, Jr., American, 1766–1854
    Date: 
    1799
    Medium: 

    Oil on canvas

    Accession Number: 
    2007.200.1
    Culture: 
    American
    Period: 
    18th century
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    American Decorative Arts

    Flagon

    Maker: Johann Christoph Heyne, American, born Germany, 1715–1781
    Date: 
    1771
    Medium: 

    Pewter

    Accession Number: 
    1930.725
    Culture: 
    American
    Period: 
    18th century
    Classification: 
    Containers - Metals
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    American Paintings and Sculpture

    Elizabeth Storer Smith (1726–1786)

    Artist: John Singleton Copley, American, 1738–1815
    Date: 
    1769
    Medium: 

    Oil on canvas in original gilded white-pine frame

    Accession Number: 
    1941.74
    Culture: 
    American
    Period: 
    18th century
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    American Decorative Arts

    Cream Pitcher

    Manufacturer attributed to: American Flint Glass Manufactory, American, 1764–1774
    Proprietor: Henry William Stiegel, American, 1729–1785
    Date: 
    1769–74
    Medium: 

    Mold-blown potash-lime glass

    Accession Number: 
    1930.1648
    Culture: 
    American
    Period: 
    18th century
    Classification: 
    Containers - Glass
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    American Decorative Arts

    Chest of Drawers with Doors

    Date: 
    1650–70
    Medium: 

    Each case frame, principally white oak and red oak; drawer runners, panels, drawer fronts, most drawer sides and backs, white oak and red oak; top bottom of upper case, top back rail of upper case, some of drawer linings, chestnut; one board in bottom of middle drawer in lower case, eastern white pine; front feet, soft maple; door frames in lower case, corbels and plaques underneath them, dentils, probably American black walnut; top and bottom of lower case, some drawer linings, light-colored, shaped moldings on doors in lower case, on small drawers in upper case, and most of same type of molding on deep drawers in upper case, cedar; applied bosses, probably maple or cherry; replaced small bosses on upper case, beech; edge molding on top of upper case, flat, beveled moldings on small drawers in upper case, molding separating these drawers from deep drawer below, wide, beveled moldings and some of the thin, shaped moldings on deep drawer, base molding of upper case, torus molding at top of lower case, triglyphs, molding below triglyphs, base molding of lower case, cedrela (Cedrela odorata); flat panels of dark, reddish-brown wood with irregular black markings on small drawers in upper case, on deep drawer in upper case, and on doors of lower case, spindles on upper case, snakewood (Piratinera guianensis); spindles on lower case, rosewood (Dalbergia spp.); pulls on small drawers in upper case, lignum vitae (Guaiacum spp.).

    Accession Number: 
    1930.2109
    Culture: 
    American
    Period: 
    17th century
    Classification: 
    Furniture
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    American Paintings and Sculpture

    Sunrise III

    Artist: Arthur Garfield Dove, American, 1880–1946
    Date: 
    1936–37
    Medium: 

    Wax emulsion and oil on canvas, partly coated in gesso

    Accession Number: 
    1949.3
    Culture: 
    American
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    American Paintings and Sculpture

    Brooklyn Bridge

    Artist: Joseph Stella, American, born Italy, 1877–1946
    Date: 
    1919–20
    Medium: 

    Oil on canvas

    Accession Number: 
    1941.690
    Culture: 
    American
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    On view

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