Chest of drawers | Yale University Art Gallery

1675–1710

Medium: Rails, stiles, side panels, drawer dividers, drawer runners, drawer fronts and sides, red oak; top, back panel, bottom, drawer bottoms and backs, eastern white pine; applied veneer or panels on top small drawers, probably walnut; moldings and applied strips on drawers, cedar, probably eastern red cedar; new molding beneath the top, probably maple; replaced spindles, cherry or a related fruitwood
Dimensions: 37 3/4 × 44 1/8 × 21 5/8 in. (95.9 × 112.1 × 55 cm)
other (Case): 41 13/16 × 19 3/4 in. (106.2 × 50.2 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2215
Geography: Made in Salem, Massachusetts
Culture: American
Period: 17th–18th century
Classification: Furniture
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Henry V. Weil, New York; by sle in 1925 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), 123, 130–31, no. 53, ill

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Object/Work type

chests of drawers

"|," in graphite, on interior sides of large drawers

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