Library Bookcase Maker: Unknown

1790–1815

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany; mahogany veneer; drawer fronts, other elements, eastern white pine; drawer linings, other elements, yellow poplar; replaced drawers, mahogany; replaced bookshelves, rosewood

Dimensions

94 3/16 × 97 1/2 × 22 1/2 in. (239.3 × 247.6 × 57.2 cm)
upper case: 95 1/8 × 12 1/2 in. (241.6 × 31.7 cm)
lower case: 96 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (244.5 × 49.5 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2093

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

18th–19th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Purchased, probably from W. & J. Sloane, New York, by Francis P. Garvan, New York. Gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Gerald W. R. Ward, American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1988), 327, 359–61, no. 186, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

There are four circular printed labels pasted to the object, each with an open space in the middle containing an ink notation, and printed with "W. & J. Sloane / FLOOR / COVERINGS / FURNITURE / Fifth Avenue & 47th St. / New York." Two of these labels are pasted to the outside of the back on the left side; the upper one has "M 249/S" and the lower one "M 245/ W. SR." A label pasted to the outside of the back on the right side is annotated "M 249/S." There is a fragment of the label pasted to the secretary drawer. Written in pencil on the top of the top of the lower case and on the outside of the back of the upper case in the center is "33-770"; "33" is written on the upper right corner of the outside of the back of the upper case.

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