Sideboard Maker: Unknown

1790–1810

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany, mahogany veneer, (excepting the replaced top); light- and dark- wood inlays; eastern white pine

Dimensions

38 1/16 × 49 13/16 × 21 1/2 in. (96.7 × 126.6 × 54.6 cm)
other (Case): 47 15/16 × 20 7/8 in. (121.7 × 53 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2171

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 as a pair with 1930.2172 to Francis P. Garvan, New York. Gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Patricia E. Kane, "Mahogany: New Research on the Wood of Choice in Early Rhode Island Furniture," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2019), 73–75, fig. 4
  • 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), 413, 416–17, no. 215, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

sideboards (furniture)

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