Pembroke table Maker: Unknown

1800

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany (including outer side rails), satinwood veneer (panels on upper ends of legs), black cherry veneer (dark band of cuffs); yellow-poplar (end and inner side rails), southern yellow pine (medial brace), eastern white pine (corner blocks)

Dimensions

28 5/8 × 18 11/16 × 34 5/16 in. (72.7 × 47.5 × 87.2 cm)
other (open): 42 11/16 in. (108.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Benjamin A. Hewitt, B.A. 1943, Ph.D. 1952

Accession Number

1984.101.1

Geography

Made in Baltimore, Maryland

Culture

American

Period

19th 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
With Hilbert Brothers, New Canaan, Conn., by May 1974; sold to Benjamin Attmore Hewitt (1921–2006), New Haven, Conn. and Wakefield, R.I., and later South Kingstown, R. I., May 14, 1974; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1984

Sources: Hilbert brothers photos I found PHOTOS: Downtown New Canaan in the 1960s | NewCanaanite.com
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), 153–54, no. 65, ill
  • "Acquisitions 1984," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 39, no. 3 (Winter 1986), 75
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

Pembroke tables

Inscriptions

"Baltimore March 29/1800" is written in chalk on the underside of the top. There is an illegible chalk inscription on the inside of one end rail.

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