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Joined table with drawer

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rectangular tables such as this, with a high stretcher at the front and back and low side stretchers connected by a medial brace, represent a format peculiar to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It includes a drawer and is ornamented with shaped brackets and cutouts on all four sides, indicating that it was designed to be freestanding. The legs and stretcher exemplify the turner’s art and resemble the bases of several chests-on-frames thought to have been made in and around Boston.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.