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Image

English, England

Bookcase, ca. 1750-1760

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

English

Title

Bookcase

Year

ca. 1750-1760

Medium

Mahogany and oak with glass

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • unidentified softwood,
  • oak,
  • glass,
  • mahogany

Dimensions

232.1 x 143.5 x 55.2 cm (91 3/8 x 56 1/2 x 21 11/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Scratched into right pane of glass:Tell me why this dull round off

Place

England

Type

  • Decorative Arts,
  • Furniture

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Lucy Truman Aldrich, and Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

D37.075

Projects & Publications

Publications

The Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of European Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Bookcase with the accession number of D37.075. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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