Chest with drawers Yale University Art Gallery

1675–1710

Medium: Stiles, rails, front and side panels, drawer fronts, sides, and runners, cleats, till, white oak; top, back panels, bottom of chest, drawer bottoms and backs, southern yellow pine; applied spindles and moldings, possibly maple; applied triangular corners, possibly cedar
Dimensions: 40 × 47 5/8 × 21 3/8 in. (101.6 × 121 × 54.3 cm)
Credit Line: Donor Unknown
Accession Number: 1800.4
Geography: Made in Wethersfield, Connecticut
Culture: American
Period: 17th 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

Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Conn., by 1883; transferred to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., probably in 1928 [see note 1]

Note 1: 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), 92–93 recounts George Dudley Seymour (1859–1945), New Haven, Conn. efforts to have chest restored.

Bibliography

Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 6, fig. 4

Susan Schoelwer, "Connecticut Sunflower Furniture: A Familiar Form Reconsidered," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 40, no. 2 (Spring 1989), 24, 30–31, fig. 4, 7, 12

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), 81, 90–93, 382, 457, no. 26, ill.

Arthur W. Leibundguth, "An Extreme Example of Artistic License," Connecticut Antiquarian 28 (December 1976), 12

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

cedar, chests with drawers, maple, oak, pine, utilitarian objects

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