1959.87: Jacobean Buffet
Furniture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1959.87
- Title
- Jacobean Buffet
- Classification
- Furniture
- Work Type
- sideboard
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/228225
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oak
- Dimensions
- 123.2 × 121.9 cm (48 1/2 × 48 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Emmet Blakeney Gleason
- Accession Year
- 1959
- Object Number
- 1959.87
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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From old accession sheet: Oblong with dentiled and gouge-molded cornice, carved frieze with running design of leaf scrolls resting on two ring-turned bulbous supports with Ionic capitals; cupboard upper section with panel door and sloping returns, each ornamented with rosettes and floral ornament within a formal border of gadroons, acanthus leaves at corners; the gadroon and acanthus motives are repeated upon the shelf which also rests on two bulbous ring-turned supports of elongated form, the rear posts carved with a guilloche motive; base finished with border of sunk gadroon flutings.
Verification Level
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