Worktable Maker: Unknown

1815–40

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Soft maple (top, corner posts, pedestal, veneer), hard maple (bead moldings, legs); eastern white pine (frame members, drawer runners, writing surface, interiors of lower two drawers; front, back, and bottom of upper drawer), mahogany (sides and partitions of upper drawer, veneer on writing surface), birch (lateral brace), white oak (braces under top)

Dimensions

36 1/16 × 18 15/16 × 19 1/16 in. (91.6 × 48.1 × 48.4 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2113

Geography

Possibly made in New York, or New Jersey, or Pennsylvania

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
With Charles R. Morson (1870–1929), New York, by 1926; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, 1926; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930
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), 284–85, no. 158, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

work tables

Inscriptions

"Boon" is inscribed in chalk on the underside of the bottom drawer. "RO 80 / 7667 / L [encircled]" is written in red crayon on the underside of the same drawer.

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