Chest-on-chest Maker: Unknown

1770–90

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black cherry; eastern white pine

Dimensions

88 1/16 × 40 13/16 × 23 1/16 in. (223.7 × 103.7 × 58.6 cm)
other (Lower case): 38 3/8 × 21 1/8 in. (97.5 × 53.7 cm)
other (Upper case): 36 7/16 × 19 9/16 in. (92.5 × 49.7 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Doris M. Brixey

Accession Number

1984.32.40

Geography

Made in Connecticut, Made in Eastern Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

18th 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
Israel Sack, New York; acquired at auction in 1928 by collector Richard De Wolfe Brixey (1880-1943), New York; by descent to his daughter, Doris M. Brixey (d. 1983). Bequest in 1984 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • 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), 180–82, no. 85, ill
  • "Acquisitions 1984," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 39, no. 3 (Winter 1986), 75
  • Aaron Marc Stein, "English and American Furniture in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard deWolfe Brixey," Fine Arts 18 (December 1931), 38, fig. 7
  • Anderson Galleries, New York, Important American Antiques from the King Hooper Mansion, Marblehead, Mass. [Part Three] sold by order of Mr. I. Sack, Boston, Mass., sale cat. (December 7–8, 1928), 84, no. 228
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

chests-on-chests, utilitarian objects

Inscriptions

There is an illegible, and possibly original, inscription on the underside of the bottom of the upper case. There are chalk drawings of foliate motifs on the inside of the front of the top center drawer and similar drawings in pencil on the upper inside of the right side of the upper case. "N E" is written in pencil on the sides of two of the partitions in the top center drawer of the upper case. The underside of the bottom of the top small drawers in the upper case are each marked "L" in pencil. A modern pencil notation on the underside of the bottom drawer in the lower case reads: "Regult [Reglued?] by / IDS & M / [illegible] 63 [?]." There are columns of addition in pencil on the top edge of the lowest drawer divider in the lower case, and the locations of the upper case drawers have been numbered in white chalk on the inside of the left side of the case.

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