Desk | Yale University Art Gallery

1690–1735

Medium: Maple, cherry, walnut veneer, yellow poplar
Dimensions: 42 3/8 × 36 × 20 1/8 in. (107.6 × 91.4 × 51.1 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2119
Geography: Made in Rhode Island
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

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), 464-65, app. no. 19, 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. 24

Charles Nagel, Jr., American Furniture: 1650–1850 (New York: Chanticleer Press, 1949), 25, 41, pl. 5b

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

Walter A. Dyer, "The American Scrutoire-Desk: Primitive - Queen Anne," Fine Arts 18, no. 5 (April 1932), 31, ill

Associates in Fine Arts, Yale University, "Handbook: A Description of the Gallery of Fine Arts and the Collections," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 5, nos. 1–3 (1931), 58, ill

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