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Reappraising an upside-down Shaker masterpiece.
The yellow Shaker case with two cupboards and four drawers shown in Plate I became well known when it was included in an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in 1986 and illustrated in the accompanying catalogue. Eleven years later I wrote about it:
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What the design achieves, perhaps without conscious intention, is an extraordinary rhythm and movement: the vertical of the lower door moves up to a tight, complex drawer area. Then the knobs spread the eye out to move up and around the cupboard door above.... This piece is one of the great manifeslations of a maker's ability to pull a freewheeling design ...
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