Bookcase 1835–50 American The overlay of Gothic tracery, trefoils, and cluster columns on this otherwise classical bookcase reveals the emerging interest in the Gothic Revival style in New York beginning in the mid-1830s. The lower section, with its scroll support, door arrangement, and ogee-molded drawer, follows the design of a sideboard illustrated in the New York cabinetmaker Joseph Meeks’s broadside advertisement of Bookcase 559

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