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Victrola cabinet
1930
Object Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Medium/Technique
Padouk, mahogany, pine, metal
Dimensions
Overall: 108 x 132.1 x 63.5 cm (42 1/2 x 52 x 25 in.)
Credit Line
Henry H. and Zoe Oliver Sherman Fund
Accession Number2015.2835
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Case furniture and boxes
DescriptionCabinet with two pull-out counter slabs and two exterior folding doors, enclosing two cabinet doors, a single drawer, and six carved record vertical drawers
InscriptionsWHARTON ESHERICK / MCMXXX + J.S."-carved into interior of far proper right front door panal, at top.
Provenance1930, made for Helene Koerting Fischer, Germantown, Pennsylvania; about 1972, by descent to York Fischer, Sr.; about 1985, by descent to York Fischer, Jr.; 2006, sold at Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey (Modern Design, October 25, 2006, lot 460) to a private client (via Leigh Keno, New York); 2008, sold again at Rago Auctions (Modern Design, October 25, 2008, lot 82) to collectors Mr and Mrs. Kai Woo; 2015, sold by the Woos via Moderne Gallery (Robert Aibel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)