American Period Furniture in Museum Collections
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Case Piece
Dowry chest
Maker unknown · ca. 1860
Medium
Wood, lacquer, oil paint
Dimensions
18 × 33 × 17 in. (45.7 × 83.8 × 43.2 cm)
Accession
2017.684
Credit line
Gift of Margaret Constance Eiluned Morgan, in memory of her mother, Constance Morrow Morgan, daughter of Dwight and Elizabeth Morrow, 2017
Culture
Mexican (Olinalá)
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