High chest of drawers Maker: Unknown

1760–90

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black cherry, including backboard of lower case; eastern white pine; some elements, including upper backboard of upper case, southern yellow pine

Dimensions

87 1/2 × 38 5/8 × 19 13/16 in. (222.2 × 98.1 × 50.3 cm)
other (Lower case): 38 1/8 × 19 7/16 in. (96.8 × 49.4 cm)
other (Upper case): 18 1/8 × 35 3/4 in. (46 × 90.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2228

Geography

Made in Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

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
Owned in 1925 by Israel Sack, Inc., Boston, MA; by sale to Brooks Reed Gallery, Inc., Boston, MA; by sale in 1929 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), 276–78, no. 145, ill
  • David G. De Long, Helen Searing, and Robert A. M. Stern, eds., American Architecture: Innovation and Tradition (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1986), 11, fig. 12
  • Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 54, no. 91, ill
  • "I. Sack advertisement," Antiques 8, no. 5 (November 1925), inside front cover, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

high chests of drawers

Inscriptions

"A Brown[?]" is written in white chalk on the outside of the left side of the upper right drawer in the upper case. Written in pencil on the inside of the front of the wide drawer in the lower case is "1866 Bought at Reuben Jennison's Auction / March 27th I [?] D----" There are shop marks and numbers in pencil. A "Connecticut Furniture" (1967) exhibition label is pasted to the inside of the bottom of the lowest drawer in the upper case and to the same location in the wide drawer in the lower case.

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