Base of High Chest | Yale University Art Gallery

1740–60

Not on view

Medium: Maple, yellow poplar, pine
Dimensions: 32 × 35 3/4 × 18 7/8 in. (81.3 × 90.8 × 47.9 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2386
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

Francis P. Garvan (untill 1930, donated to Yale University Art Gallery)

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), 463, app. no. 17, ill

Anderson Galleries and American Art Association, New York, Colonial Furniture, Silver, and Decorations: The Collection of the Late Philip Flayderman, sale cat. (January 2–4, 1930), 35, no. 156

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

bases (object components), high chests

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