Chest of Drawers Designer: Harry Eduard Snohr (American, born Denmark, 1896–1968)
Retailer: Lord & Taylor (American, founded 1826)

1929

American Decorative Arts

Not on view
Medium

Exterior portions veneered in figured maple, probably described as "harewood" when chest was made. Top, sides, drawer dividers, drawer runners, drawer sides and backs, bottom framework, feet, mahogany; core of drawer fronts, bottom boards, case sides, chestnut; back, drawer bottoms, yellow poplar plywood with mahogany facing

Dimensions

38 15/16 × 42 1/16 × 19 in. (98.9 × 106.9 × 48.2 cm)
other (Case): 42 1/16 × 17 15/16 in. (106.9 × 45.6 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of J. Marshall and Thomas M. Osborn in memory of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Osborn

Accession Number

1977.40.17

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

Probably American

Period

20th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Purchaced by Marie-Louise Montgomery Osborn and James Marshall Osborn, Bronxville, N.Y., and New Haven, Conn., ca. 1929–76; inherited by their sons, J. Marshall Osborn, Madison, Wis., and Thomas M. Osborn, Los Angeles, 1976–77
Bibliography
  • John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 252–53, no. 168
  • 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), 123, 157–58, no. 75, ill
  • Gordon Eliot Sands, "The Osborn Furniture: Modern Decorative Arts and the Department Store," Decorative Arts Society Newsletter 3, no. 9 (September 1983), 5, 8, fig. 8
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

chests of drawers

Inscriptions

"Keep hands off," in pencil on inside of back; various shop marks and numbers, in pencil on inside of case and drawers

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