High chest of drawers, 1710–30, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Japanned soft maple, poplar, white pine

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High chest of drawers, 1710–30, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Japanned soft maple, poplar, white pine, 62 1/2 x 39 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. ( x x 54 cm), Furniture, Japanning, a Western imitation of oriental lacquerwork, became fashionable in the colonies after 1700. A stylish surface treatment in which motifs of vaguely Far Eastern origin were raised, gilded, and varnished, japanning was applied to standard furniture forms and, when bright and new, must have produced a dazzling effect

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