Case of Drawers with Cupboard1810–182080 x 48 x 21 " (203.2 x 121.9 x 53.3 cm)Pine, ironGift of James and Katherine Goodman2001.36.108 drawer, 2 bonnet cupboard case piece1542923047Artist unidentifiedFurniture/FurnishingsThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain. Shakerhttp://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster20051New LebanonNew LebanonUnited StatesNew YorkThree Dimensional WorksNew LebanonFURNITUREshaker
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgSoon after the founding of their first communities in New York and New England in thelate eighteenth century, a distinctive tradition in the arts and crafts developed among the Shakers. Notable for its reduction of vernacular forms, Shaker design places emphasis on simplicity, harmony and function. These ideas find visual expression in the furniture that was produced in the Shaker communities; it is simple but elegant, without decorative or ornamental painting, carving, or turnings, but exacting in craftsmanship and purity of line.
Shakers resided in self-contained villages, generally consisting of several “families” of as many as one hundred or more members each. Built to serve the needs of this communal lifestyle, Shaker furniture is often imposing in scale. Tall case pieces combining drawers and cupboard —like this handsome example—were often produced in the mid-nineteenth century at New Lebanon, New York, the seat of the religious community’s central ministry and the most influential of the Shaker villages. The “mushroom” pulls on the drawers are typical of Shaker design, as are the simple, cut feet.http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster20051http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster20051http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster2005118051825 2001 36 1 FURNITUREshaker
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgSoon after the founding of their first communities in New York and New England in thelate eighteenth century, a distinctive tradition in the arts and crafts developed among the Shakers. Notable for its reduction of vernacular forms, Shaker design places emphasis on simplicity, harmony and function. These ideas find visual expression in the furniture that was produced in the Shaker communities; it is simple but elegant, without decorative or ornamental painting, carving, or turnings, but exacting in craftsmanship and purity of line.
Shakers resided in self-contained villages, generally consisting of several “families” of as many as one hundred or more members each. Built to serve the needs of this communal lifestyle, Shaker furniture is often imposing in scale. Tall case pieces combining drawers and cupboard —like this handsome example—were often produced in the mid-nineteenth century at New Lebanon, New York, the seat of the religious community’s central ministry and the most influential of the Shaker villages. The “mushroom” pulls on the drawers are typical of Shaker design, as are the simple, cut feet.