Chest of Drawers Maker: Unknown

1785–1800

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany; drawer sides, bottoms, back, yellow poplar; partial dustboards, bottom, blocks, eastern white pine; center portion of slide, eastern red cedar; replaced backboard, chestnut

Dimensions

32 3/8 × 36 13/16 × 21 1/4 in. (82.3 × 93.5 × 53.9 cm)
other (Case): 35 5/16 × 19 13/16 in. (89.7 × 50.3 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2682

Geography

Made in Providence, Rhode Island

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Israel Sack, New York; by sale in 1929 to Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Joshua A. Klein, "An Unjustified Mystique: Period Dovetails Up-Close," Mortise and Tenon Magazine (2016), 115, ill
  • 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), 123, 137–38, no. 58, ill
  • Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 303, 340, fig. 8.25
  • Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 70–71, no. 49
  • Anderson Galleries, New York, The George S. Palmer Collection...with Addition of Fine American Pieces Collected by Mr. I. Sack, sale cat. (18–20 October 1928), 124–25, no. 268, ill
  • Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), n.p., no. 266
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

chests of drawers

Inscriptions

"6 V"(?) or "4 V"(?), in chalk, on exterior back of upper drawer; "4," in graphite, on interior of proper-right side of upper drawer; "V," in chalk, on exterior back of second drawer from top; "5," in graphite, on interior sides of second drawer from top; "V," in chalk, on exterior back of third drawer from top, "6" [upside down], in graphite, on interior of proper-right side of third drawer from top; "X 7" [upside down], in chalk, on exterior back of lower drawer; "7," in graphite, on interior of proper-right side of lower drawer; "Bottom / X," in chalk, on underside of case bottom; "3" and "4," in chalk, on top of second and third drawer blades

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