AMERICAN KASTEN Metropolitan Museum Dutch-Style Cupboards NY, NJ 1650-1800 paper
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AMERICAN KASTEN Metropolitan Museum Dutch-Style Cupboards NY, NJ 1650-1800 paper:
$125.00
Kenny, Peter M., Frances Gruber Safford & Gilbert T. Vincent
AMERICAN KASTEN: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800
NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991First edition. 11\" x 8.5\". 80 pp; b/w & color photographs; catalogue of 19 items; appendices; glossary; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, clean, unmarked copy.Published in conjunction with an exhibition, \"American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800\", held January 19 to April 7, 1991.
The American kast is a large, freestanding wooden cupboard orwardrobe, generally with two doors. Inside are two or three widely spacedshelves; the more elaborate pieces have a drawer in the base section foradditional storage. In America kastenwere made exclusively in the Dutch cultural areas of New York, New Jersey, andConnecticut in the period from the mid-17th century to the first quarter of the19th century.
The earliest surviving American kasten are four multi-paneledexamples built of joined oak, a type of construction which had characterizedDutch kasten through the first half of the 17th century. By 1700 a new design,related in style to Dutch Baroque kasten of the second half of the 17thcentury, had developed in the Dutch settlements in America.
AMERICAN KASTEN Metropolitan Museum Dutch-Style Cupboards NY, NJ 1650-1800 paper:
$125.00