Gothic wood wardrobe or Confessional, c1880 (losses)
Dimensions: 47.5" width x 75.5" height (not including spires) x 21" depth
The height of the wardrobe including the spires is 98". Large piece of wood missing from back which might be explained by the possibility of it being a Confessional, the hole being where the priest would hear the sins of the visitor.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Provenance: Mary Kaplan collection,NYC.Columbia University Press published a book on the Kaplan family collection in 1981(The Alice M Kaplan Collection, cataloged by Linda Bantel and published by the Advisory Council of the Dept of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 1981.Printed by the Steinhour Press,Distributed by Columbia University Press.).The collection includes museum quality paintings and drawings by Edgar Degas, Egon Schiele,Ammi Phillips. Giorgio Morandi and John Peto, as well as other 20th century masters.Mary Kaplan is the daughter of Alice Kaplan.

One of the decorative pieces on top of the wardrobe is detached but present.See above.