Worktable Maker: Unknown

1810–30

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany, mahogany veneer; eastern white pine

Dimensions

28 5/8 × 20 1/2 × 18 in. (72.7 × 52.1 × 45.7 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Olive Louise Dann

Accession Number

1962.32.100

Geography

Made in Eastern Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Olive Louise Dann (1880–1961), New Haven, Conn., by 1959 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1959–1961); bequeathed to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1961
Bibliography
  • David L. Barquist, Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, and Gerald W. R. Ward, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 280–81, no. 154, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

work tables

Inscriptions

"Hall" is written in ink on the inside bottom of the upper drawer; "2. / 25 / 43" is written in pencil on the upper edge of the left drawer side. "1186 / Scq [Sep?] 6 - 1926" is written in pencil on the right side of the lower drawer; "1" and "T B" are written in pencil on the back.

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