Chest of Drawers | Yale University Art Gallery

1680–1720

Medium: Stiles, top front rail, soft maple; side and back, bottom front rail, rails, brace under top, drawer dividers, red oak; top, bottom, drawer dividers, side panels, back, drawer fronts, sides, backs, and bottoms, eastern white pine
Dimensions: 36 3/8 × 40 9/16 × 21 1/4 in. (92.4 × 103 × 53.9 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2229
Geography: Made in New England
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

Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Joshua A. Klein, "An Unjustified Mystique: Period Dovetails Up-Close," Mortise and Tenon Magazine (2016), 111, ill

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, 133–34, no. 55, ill

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chests of drawers

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