Chest with drawers | Yale University Art Gallery

1700–1750

Medium: Top, sides, front, drawer fronts, moldings, soft maple; top backboards, chest bottom, drawer divider, bottom, eastern white pine; drawer sides, back, and bottoms, bottom backboard, strips applied to front edge of sides, chestnut
Dimensions: 35 1/4 × 38 9/16 × 18 11/16 in. (89.6 × 97.9 × 47.4 cm)
other (Case): 36 13/16 × 17 3/4 in. (93.5 × 45.1 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2054
Geography: Made in New England
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

J. Norris, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.; by sale to Francis P. Garvan, New York Gift 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), 81, 107–8, no. 38, ill

R. W. Symonds and Thomas H. Ormsbee, Antique Furniture of the Walnut Period (New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1947), pl. LVIII

Thomas H. Ormsbee, The Story of American Furniture (New York: MacMillan Company, 1934), 57–58, illus. 18

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Additional information

Object/Work type

chests with drawers

Remnants of a modern paper shipping label remain on the outside of the back.

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