Doctor's Cabinet Maker: Unknown

1755–90

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black cherry; butternut and eastern white pine; replaced drawer under flap, cherry front (other drawers here, butternut fronts), chestnut back, yellow poplar sides

Dimensions

72 1/4 × 39 13/16 × 18 11/16 in. (183.5 × 101.1 × 47.5 cm)
other (Upper case): 35 3/16 × 10 3/16 in. (89.3 × 25.9 cm)
other (Lower case): 37 3/4 × 18 7/16 in. (95.9 × 46.9 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1950.784

Geography

Made in Connecticut, Probably made in Norwich

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, New York. Gift in 1950 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), 350–51, no. 181, ill
  • Edgar Den. Mayhew and Minor Myers Jr., New London County Furniture, 1640–1840, exh. cat. (New London, Conn.: Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 1974), no. 57
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

"Charles ----" is written in red on the outside of one of the drawers in the lower case. The drawers under the flap are numbered "1" through "6" from left to right respectively; the other drawers in the lower case are numbered, from left to right, "T1" through "T4" on the top row, "M1" through "M4" on the middle row, and "B1" through "B4" on the bottom row (even though there are only two drawers here). A modern label was once pinned to the underside of the bottom of the upper case.

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