Table chest with drawers Maker: Unknown

1760–1800

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black walnut; yellow poplar

Dimensions

15 1/2 × 25 11/16 × 11 3/4 in. (39.4 × 65.3 × 29.9 cm)
other (Case): 23 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (60.8 × 27.7 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2464

Geography

Made in Pennsylvania

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Henry V. Weil, New York; by sale to Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; 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), 57, 71–72, no. 13
  • Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), n.p., no. 100
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

chests, tables (support furniture)

Inscriptions

There is an old inscription consisting of about three illegible words in red chalk on the underside of one of the drawer bottoms. On the upper side of the bottom of the other drawer in black chalk or crayon is the modern "1987 / 26."

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