Pillar-and-Claw Pembroke Table Maker: Unknown

1820–30

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany (including front and back frame rails), mahogany veneer; eastern white pine (inner side rails, medial brace, drawer front, filler pieces in plinth), soft maple (hinged rails), yellow-poplar (drawer interior, runners, stops, guide), ash (crossbraces of plinth)

Dimensions

29 × 23 3/4 × 38 1/2 in. (73.6 × 60.3 × 97.8 cm)
other (open): 48 in. (121.9 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1936.414

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

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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
Ella Hamilton Van Liew (1855–1934) [see note 1], New York, by March 1933; sold through Henry Hammond Taylor 1878–1933), Bridgeport, Conn. to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, March 16, 1933; given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1936

Note 1: It’s possible that the original owner of the table was Randolph Van Liew (b. 1791), who moved to New York from New Brunswick, New Jersey, during the early 1820s. His son Augustus, later Ella Hamilton Van Liew's father-in-law, was born in New York on November 1, 1825 (membership records of the Holland Society, New York). For further information on the Van Liews' ancestry, see YUAG acc.no. 1936.308, also purchased by Hammond on behalf of Garvan from Hamilton van Liew.

Sources: Ella: New York, New York, U.S., Index to Death Certificates, 1862-1948 - AncestryLibrary.com
Bibliography
  • David L. Barquist, Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, and Gerald W. R. Ward, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 54, 84, 158–61, no. 69, pl. 16, ill
  • Classical America, 1815–1845: An Exhibition at the Newark Museum, exh. cat. (Newark, N.J.: Newark Museum, 1963), 57, 78, no. 44
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

pillar and claw Pembroke tables

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