Dressing table
Unknown artist
Date: 1740–60
Medium: Japanned maple, japanned white pine, white pine, japanned birch; brass
Dimensions: 29 3/4 x 33 3/4 x 21 1/8 in. (75.6 x 85.7 x 53.7 cm)
Country: United States
Culture: American
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1940
Date range
1740 – 1760
Largest dimension
53.7 cm
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