18th Century Material Culture

Kasts & Cupboards

Kasts
American Painted Oak Kast from New York, New York
c. 1650 - 1700
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
American Cherry & White Pine Kast from New York
c. 1740 - 1770
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
American Gumwood Kast
c. 1725
(Private Collection)
American Gumwood Kast from Hempstead, Long Island (New York)
c. 1750 - 1770
(Peter Eaton Antiques)
American Gumwood Kast from Albany, New York
c. 1750
(Christie’s)
American Gumwood & Mahogany Kast
c. 1725
(Private Collection)
 Court
Cupboards
English Court Cupboard
c. 1630
(Private Collection)
English Court Cupboard
c. 1630
(Private Collection)
English Court Cupboard
Mid 17th Century
(Private Collection)
English Court Cupboard
Late 17th Century
(Antiques World)
American Court Cupboard from Massachusetts
c. 1685 - 1690
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
 American Court Cupboard from Massachusetts
Attributed to the Harvard College Joiners of Cambridge c. 1670 - 1690
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
 American Court Cupboard from Massachusetts
c. 1675 - 1695
(Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium)
American Court Cupboard Associated to the Putnam Family of New England
c. 1685
(Peabody Essex Museum)
American Court Cupboard fromYork County, Virginia
c. 1660 - 1680
(Museum Southern Decorative Arts)
Step - Back
Cupboards
American Step - Back Cupboard from New England in Red Paint
Early 18th Century
(Skinner)
American Step - Back Cupboard from New England in Blue Paint
18th Century
(Copake Auctions, Inc.)
American Step - Back Cupboard from New England in Brown Paint
c. 1750 - 1800
(Five Colleges & Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium)
American Grain Painted Pine Step Back Cupboard
Late 18th Century
(Skinner)
American Step - Back Cupboard from Pennsylvania in Blue Paint
c. 1760 - 1780
(Philadelphia Museum of Art)
American Step - Back Cupboard from Pennsylvania
c. 1785 - 1790
(Philadelphia Museum of Art)
American Step Back Cupboard or Kitchen Dresser from Berks County, Pennsylvania
c. 1775 - 1800
(Winterthur)
American Walnut & Yellow Pine Step Back Cupboard or Kitchen Dresser from Virginia
c. 1745 - 1755
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
 Simple
Cupboards
 American Livery Cupboard for Food Storage from New England in Red Paint
From the Thomas Hailer House, Constructed in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1717
(Five Colleges & Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium)
 American Cupboard from Virginia
c. 1760 - 1840
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
American Cupboard from New England in Green / Grey Paint
Late 18th Century
(Skinner)
 Corner
Cupboards
American Corner Cupboard from Massachusetts in Blue Paint
18th Century
(Private Collection)
American Corner Cupboard from New England in Red Stain
18th Century
(Skinner)
American Corner Cupboard from Vermont in Blue Paint
Late 18th Century
(Skinner)
American Corner Cupboard from Salem, Massachusetts with Traces of Original Red Paint (Replaced Top Scalloping)
c. 1750 - 1800
(Historic Deerfield)
American Corner Cupboard from Massachusetts in a Reddish Brown Paint
c. 1760 - 1790
(Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium)
American Corner Cupboard from the Tidewater, Virginia in Blue Paint
c. 1735 - 1745
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
American Corner Cupboard from Virginia in Blue Paint
c. 1745 - 1755
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
American Corner Cupboard from Virginia in Blue Paint
c. 1745 - 1755
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
American Corner Cupboard from Virginia in Blue & White Paint
c. 1745 - 1755
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
American Corner Cupboard from Virginia in Blue Paint
c. 1745 - 1755
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
American Corner Cupboard from Virginia in Blue, White, and Black Paint
c. 1770 - 1790
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
American Corner Cupboard from the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
c. 1780
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
American Corner Cupboard from North Carolina
c. 1760 - 1815
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
American Corner Cupboard from the Southeast Coastline
c. 1760 - 1790
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
Table Top
Cupboards
American Black Walnut & Tulip Cupboard from the Mid - Atlantic or Southeast Coastline
c. 1750 - 1770
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
American Black Walnut & Tulip Cupboard from the Mid - Atlantic or Southeast Coastline
c. 1750 - 1770
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
 European Cupboard
Dated 1761
(Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Hanger
Presses
American Black Walnut & Yellow Pine Hanger Press from Virginia
c. 1765 - 1780
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
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