Chest | Yale University Art Gallery

1810–30

Medium: Eastern white pine
Dimensions: 24 3/4 × 50 × 21 11/16 in. (62.9 × 127 × 55.1 cm)
other (Case): 48 × 20 15/16 in. (121.9 × 53.2 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2222
Geography: Made in Centre County, Pennsylvania
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

A.J. Pennypacker, Pennsburg, Pa.; by sale to Francis P. Garvan, New York Gift 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), 81, 118–19, no. 48, ill

John T. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 74–75, fig. 171

Meyric R. Rogers, "Garvan Furniture at Yale," Connoisseur Year Book, 1960 (1960), 63, fig. 20

"Outstanding Examples From the Mabel Brady Garvan Collections," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 8 (February 1938), 106, ill

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