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Etagere (USA)
This is a Etagere. It was cabinet maker: Julius Dessoir. It is dated ca. 1855 and we acquired it in 1937. Its medium is rosewood, maple, glass mirror, brass. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Julius Dessoir and Alexander Roux of France enhanced their reputations by exhibiting furniture at the 1853 World’s Fair in New York. Dessoir labeled this parlor piece, whose shelves were for object display enhanced by mirrors.
This object was
donated by
Anonymous.
It is credited Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- Heatwave Radiator
- molded polyconcrete (polyester concrete), aluminum.
- Gift of Jaga, N.V..
- 2008-13-1-a/c
- Cabinet, from Engineering Temporality series
- welded and burned steel rings.
- Courtesy of Tuomas Markunpoika.
- 9.2015.1
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 160.5 x 151 x 63cm (63 3/16 x 59 7/16 x 24 13/16in.)
It has the following markings
Stencilled in black in interior of drawer: "Julius Dessoir / Manufacturer /543 / Broadway / New York " in side dotted oval lozenge.
Cite this object as
Etagere (USA); Cabinet maker: Julius Dessoir (active NY, 1842 - 1865); rosewood, maple, glass mirror, brass; H x W x D: 160.5 x 151 x 63cm (63 3/16 x 59 7/16 x 24 13/16in.); Gift of Anonymous Donor; 1937-45-6
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008 and The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
