Chest of Drawers Maker: Unknown
Manufacturer: (brasses) Thomas Hands and William Jenkins (1795–1805)

1795–1805

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Cherry primary with lightwood and baleen inlay; basswood and pine secondary

Dimensions

34 3/8 × 38 5/8 × 19 1/4 in. (87.31 × 98.11 × 48.9 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Patrina de Roulet and her farm friends

Accession Number

2013.109.1

Geography

Probably made in Connecticut River Valley

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Early history unknown; purchased by Joan Whitney Payson (1903-1975), New York; inherited by her daughter, Lorinda Payson de Roulet, New York, ca. 1975; acquired by her daughter, Sandra de Roulet, Millbrook, N.Y., by 2002-2013; gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. in 2013
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 2014," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2014), 5
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

chests of drawers

Marks

"HJ" stamped on backside of bale handles

Inscriptions

"X," in graphite, on interior sides and interior backs of drawers

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