Tea Table Yale University Art Gallery

Designed 1942; manufactured 1947

Medium: Mahogany plywood
Dimensions: 17 5/16 × 29 5/8 × 25 3/16 in. (43.9 × 75.2 × 63.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Jane Ritchie in memory of Andrew C. Ritchie
Accession Number: 1981.53.6
Geography: made in Washington, D.C., Designed in New York, New York
Culture: American
Period: 20th 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

Calvert Coggeshall (1907–1990), New York; sold to Jane Thompson Ritchie (1907–1985) and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie (1907–1978), Buffalo, later New York, New Haven, Conn., and Canaan, Conn., 1947–81; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1981

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), 174–75, no. 189

David L. Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 94, 96–97, no. 24, ill.

"Acquisitions 1981," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 38, no. 3 (Winter 1983), 72

Mary Roche, "Good Design," New York Times (May 25, 1947)

Richard Bennett, Good Design is Your Business, exh. cat. (Buffalo: Holling Press, 1947), 47, no. 26, ill.

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

tea tables

Inscriptions

"26 [typed]/ ALBRIGHT ART GALLERY / BUFFALO, N.Y. [printed]," on small label affixed to underside of top

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