Object Notes

Like the Newport side chair [1985.B.15], also in the The Bybee Collection Collection of American Furniture at the Dallas Museum of Art, the undulating lines of this chair mark a change from earlier, more linear forms

During the late 1600s, the wife of King Charles II of England, Catherine of Braganze, became fascinated with oriental products and popularized tea drinking. By the end of the 17th century, England imported twenty thousand pounds of tea annually.

This print is from an original photograph by an American military aircraft taken on February 14, 1945.

This print is from an original photograph by an American military aircraft taken on February 14, 1945.

This print is from an original photograph by an American military aircraft taken on February 14, 1945.

First Sight (Erster Blick) is a typographical reproduction of a newspaper illustration based on a photograph of physicists from the University of Augsburg that ran in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2000.

This tall case clock is among the very first of its type made entirely in America and one of only four existing examples by clockmaker Benjamin Bagnall.

The decoration of this chest, composed of inset strips of light-colored wood, suggests a geometric pattern of tulips and berries.