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Parlor cabinet

about 1870–90
Object PlaceNew York, New York, United States
Medium/TechniqueEbonized American cherry, raised gilded gesso ornament, brass mounts
Dimensions194.31 x 127.63 x 43.18 cm (76 1/2 x 50 1/4 x 17 in.)
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number1979.401
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsFurniture
Collections
InscriptionsStamped into back: "11892"
ProvenanceDescended through the Goodman Family of Hamden, Connecticut (tradition states that the first owner was an acrobat); by 1979, with E. J. Cantor Antiques, Baltimore, Maryland; 1979, Museum purchase.
about 1810
about 1880
first half of 14th century
second or third quarter of the 14th century (?)
about 1712–13
dated 1779
about 1723
about 1725–35
about 1725–35