High chest of drawers | Yale University Art Gallery

1750–1800

Medium: Yellow poplar
Dimensions: 80 7/8 × 40 11/16 × 20 1/4 in. (205.5 × 103.3 × 51.5 cm)
other (Without steps): 70 11/16 in. (179.5 cm)
other (Upper case): 36 9/16 × 18 in. (92.9 × 45.7 cm)
other (Lower case): 39 13/16 × 19 13/16 in. (101.1 × 50.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of C. Sanford Bull, B.A. 1893
Accession Number: 1949.244
Geography: Made in Connecticut, Possibly made in Waterbury or Woodbury
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Found in Woodbury, CT, by C. Sanford Bull, Middlebury, CT, prior to 1928. Gift in 1949 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), 12–13, 235, 261–63, no. 137, ill

Edith Gaines, "The Step-Top Highboy," Antiques 72, no. 4 (October 1957), 333, fig. 4

"Living with Antiques: The Connecticut Home of Mr. and Mrs. C. Sanford Bull," Antiques 4, no. 45 (April 1944), 190

Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), no. 345

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high chests of drawers

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