Cupboard, dated 1683 Ipswich or Newbury, Massachusetts Oak and maple Lent by a private collection This unusual cupboard is filled completely with drawers and sports jetties, or overhangs, like those of a house. It was made for Abraham Perkins (1641—1722) and his wife Hannah Beamsley Perkins (1643—1732) of Ipswich, who were married in 1661. It may have commemorated the marriage of the Perkins’ daughter Hannah to a prominent woodworker named Daniel Rindge, Jr. (1658—1738). In 1698, Abraham Perkins underbid two other prominent Ipswich carpenters, Abraham Tilton Sr. (1638—1728) and Abraham Tilton Jr. (1666—1756), to secure the prestigious contract to build a new meetinghouse in Ipswich. Undoubtedly Perkins was bidding on behlf of Rindge, his son-in-law, who then became the principal contractor. Daniel Rindge’s prominence in the woodworking trades and his prosperous in-laws make him an important candidate for master of the shop tradition which made the cupboards­that is, he may have originated the style in Massachusetts and trained apprentices who made similar objects. The Pekins cupboard was restored last year based on period workmanship and scholarly study of all the related cupboards. This is its first public viewing.