Cupboard

Unknown

1670–1700 · Oak, walnut, chestnut, cedar, maple · The American Wing

Said to have been owned by Governor Robert Treat (ca. 1622–1710) of Milford, this cupboard represents the school of joinery that produced the most sophisticated case pieces in seventeenthcentury Connecticut. It has a prominent paneled door and sides with central cruciform and is decorated with applied bosses and half spindles. The applied decoration was made of several different woods, which originally gave the piece a livelier, varicolored surface.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1670–1700

Medium

Oak, walnut, chestnut, cedar, maple

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. J. Woodhull Overton, in memory of her mother, Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1953