Worktable Maker: A. Taylor (American)

ca. 1803

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany (including lowest laminate of frame, upper laminate of drawer front, drawer runners), mahogany veneer, satinwood inlay; eastern white pine (other frame laminates, lower laminate of drawer front), white oak (drawer sides), southern yellow pine (drawer bottom and back), hickory (pins supporting shelf)

Dimensions

25 7/8 × 22 3/8 × 17 1/16 in. (65.8 × 56.9 × 43.4 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Doris M. Brixey

Accession Number

1984.32.38

Geography

Made in Eastern Virginia, Probably made in Norfolk, Virginia

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Richard de Wolfe Brixey (1880–1943), New York; by descent to his daughter Doris Marquerite Brixey (1906 –1983), New York; bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1983
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), 285–86, no. 159, ill
  • "Acquisitions 1984," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 39, no. 3 (Winter 1986), 76
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

work tables

Inscriptions

"A TAYLO / R / 10th / JANUARY / 1803" is incised into the underside of the top. "MRS. BIXEY [sic]" is written in ink on an adhesive tag attached to the underside of the frame.

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