Dressing Table Maker: Unknown

1700–1730

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Front and sides of case, drawer fronts, walnut veneer on eastern white pine; legs, feet, american black walnut; drawer sides, backs, bottoms, other interior elements, eastern white pine; stretchers, red oak

Dimensions

29 3/4 × 33 5/16 × 21 7/16 in. (75.6 × 84.6 × 54.5 cm)
other (Case): 27 3/8 × 18 7/16 in. (69.6 × 46.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2993

Geography

Made in Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Henry V. Weil, New York; by sale in 1924 to 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), 195, 199–200, 201, no. 95, ill
  • Douglass Scott, Joan Ketter, and Michael Boodro, The American Clock, 1725–1865, Forgeries and Restorations in American Furniture: Two Yale Student Exhibitions, May 18–June 28, 1974, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Garvan Furniture Study, May 18–June 28, 1974), n.p., no. 20
  • Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), n.p., no. 385
  • "Henry V. Weil advertisement," Antiques 11, no. 1 (January 1927), 23, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

dressing tables

Inscriptions

"H M" is carved on the top edge of the central drawer. Each drawer is numbered in chalk on the outside from left to right, 1 through 3 respectively, and there are other illegible chalk inscriptions on the drawers.

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