High Sideboard with Hunting Trophies
This monumental sideboard represents a style of furniture that was popular from the 1850s until around 1870, after the exhibition of a similar piece at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. The sideboard was part of a dining-room suite that William T. Walters commissioned through a local furniture maker, likely around the time of his purchase of a large townhouse in Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore in 1857. The carving of the dead game animals is characteristic of the work of German artisans active in this country.
Provenance
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Acquired by William T. Walters, Baltimore, likely 1850s; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931; acquired by Haussner Collection, Baltimore; Walters Art Museum, 1997, by gift.
Exhibitions
2014-2016 | From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Conservation
Date | Description | Narrative |
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Treatment | Repaired | |
Treatment | Repaired. |
Geographies
USA, Maryland, Baltimore (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 116 1/2 × W: 87 × D: 36 3/4 in. (295.91 × 220.98 × 93.35 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Frances W. Haussner, 1997
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
65.132