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Kast
Attributed to: Roelof D. Demarest (American, 1769–1845)
1790–1810
Object Place: Schraalenburgh (now Bergenfield), Bergen County, New Jersey
Medium/Technique
Red gum, yellow-poplar, pine
Dimensions
Overall: 198.1 x 188 x 68.9 cm (78 x 74 x 27 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by a friend of the Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture
Accession Number1994.44
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Case furniture and boxes
DescriptionLarge kast with complex molded projecting cornice; paired cupboard doors with applied moldings forming vertical panels, with inlaid compass work stars at center of panel and above and below; doors flanked by stiles with applied moldings forming two large superimposed panels, and with central section, attached to right door, with two superimposed panels and central brass escutcheon; doors separated from drawer below by an applied molding; one wide side-hung drawer, fitted with applied moldings to simulate two drawers with elongated diamond formed by applied moldings at center, and two dual-disk escutcheons with bail pulls; drawer flanked by diamond-shaped moldings; a wide projecting molding above two ebonized turned feet with thin necks, and with the ball shape divided by an incised lije, with disks below; kast finished with a reddish stain; doors open to interior fitted with shelves and with a small drawer attached to middle shelgf at center.
ProvenancePurchased by Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, N.Y., in 1967 from Robert Palmiter, a dealer in upstate New York; deaccessioned by vote of their trustees in 1993; purchased by the Museum in 1994 (Accession Date March 23, 1994)