Physical Qualities
Maple, white pine, paint, gilt, gold leaf, gesso, brass; three replaced bails, 68 1/16 x 43 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. (172.9 x 111.1 x 62.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Francis C. Taliaferro in Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Austin McLanahan
Object Number
1970.37.4
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase, 1970; Roland Hammond, Antiques, North Andover, Massachusetts, by 1970; by descent to John Harkness, Hamilton, Massachusetts; Harkness family of Marblehead, Massachusetts.
David Park Curry, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "PAINT! Japanned, Ebonised, Grained, and Polychromed Furniture", December 2006-November 2012.
Elder III, William Voss. Japanned High Chest Restored Successfully. 'The Baltimore Museum of Art Record,' Vol. 3, No. 3, Nov. 1972
Museum Accessions, 'Antiques,' June 3, 1973, p. 1070
Elder III, William Voss and Jayne E. Stokes. American Furniture 1680-1880: From the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Museum of Art, 1987, p. 72-73, ill. 49.
"Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Decorative Arts", New York: Christies, 2012, p. 26, fig. 3.
Inscribed: Inscribed: "WR" [cipher]; "Robert Davis"
Japanner
Robert Davis
1709–1738
American, born England before 1710-1739; active in Boston, 1733-1739
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