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Secretary

This is a secretary. It was made by Company of Master Craftsmen and retailed by W. and J. Sloane. It is dated ca. 1926. Its medium is mahogany, glass, and brass.

In the mid-1920s, William Sloane Coffin, trustee and later president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded The Company of Master Craftsmen and Oneidacraft, producing historical “registered reproductions” to be sold through the New York department store W. & J. Sloane. This secretary is one of fifty-two pieces commissioned from Sloane by the New York State Historical Association (now Fenimore Art Museum) in 1926 for a replica of John Hancock’s former residence, demolished in 1863.

It is credited Lent by Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York. Museum purchase, acquired with funds provided by Horace Moses..

Chest (USA)
mahogany, brass, gilt bronze.
Bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1926-22-90-a/c

Blanket Chest
pine, gesso, lacquer.
Lent by Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 67.271.1.
33.2016.2

A vertically-oriented, rectangular two-door cabinet with a high-style French design highlighting a rich, orange-brown woodgrain with geometric borders and an inlaid marquetry scene in the center. The rectilinear piece is composed of rare thuyawood, mahogany and yellow-gold satinwood with additional inlays of ebony and plastic fittings. Perched atop four tipped legs, the center of the front panel features a small marquetry scene -- an inlaid work made from small pieces of variously colored wood or other materials -- depicting a garden, fountain, and marble terrace with balustrade in perspective. Along the top of the piece are vertical bars of varying coloration; geometric Art Deco border patterns frame the side the bottom edges, featuring parallel and wave lines. Thuyawood (pronounced two-ya) is from the Thuya tree, a conifer from the cedar family, and is exclusively native to Morocco. This highly praised conifer grows only in the forests of the Atlas mountains east of Essaouira, a beautiful coastal town. Thuya was highly praised by Romans and Greeks and its oils were used in religious rituals and ceremonies. Thuya trees reach maturity over many decades. The praised part of this tree is not the trunk, but the burl buried in the ground which has a deeper color, a more concentrated aroma, and a fascinating grain. The burls are very scarce and hard to locate, extract, and transport.

Object ID #907214297
thuyawood, mahogany, satinwood, plastic, ebony.
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Theodore R. Gamble, Jr.....
66.2016.3

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A wrought iron stand the size of a fireplace.See through in the middle, the iron is decorated into a repeated grid pattern of made of a square of curls with textured squares within the curls in the middle. Surrounded by a solid thick frame, it has an overall shape of a square refelecting the decorative motif. At the top two corners are two stylized creatures, with two curls on either side of each head. The two bottom feet look like two elongated, stylized feet.

Object ID #907130101
wrought iron.
Courtesy of Leeds Art Foundation.
39.2016.1

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 248.9 × 116.8 × 63.5 cm (8 ft. 2 in. × 46 in. × 25 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2oaJxD/
Accession Number 87.2016.1
Object ID 907218811