About the Artwork
Cabinet with Base
1738
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German
Unknown
Painted wood, brass
Overall (cabinet): 37 × 49 1/2 × 17 3/4 inches (94 × 125.7 × 45.1 cm) Overall (base): 40 7/8 × 50 1/2 × 28 inches (103.8 × 128.3 × 71.1 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth
22.240
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, on bottom right, and on trunk of tree on right side of the upper case: 1738
Provenance
Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth
1922-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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J.W. "Gifts of Period Furniture." Bulletin of the DIA 5, no. 6 (March 1924): pp. 42-43 (cover ill.).
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German, Cabinet with Base, 1738, painted wood, brass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth, 22.240.
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