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Zoar Collection
Description: This is an image of a blue cupboard made of walnut and poplar with hand-painted German Fraktur script on the doors. The translation of German script on two hinged doors is "Love God not His Gifts if you want (to have) Him for a Friend"" (top door); "Grant That I be Toward You and All People Meek (in) Heart, Plain in words, Humble (in) works" (bottom door). The cupboard has mushroom turnedknobs and a raised frame around each door. The cupboard belonged to the family of Joseph Beutner, the last tinsmith of the Zoarite Community. This cupboard is the earliest known dated piece of Zoar furniture and represents the transition from the European Germanic tradition to the distinctive Zoarite style. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H84174
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)