Drawer Maker: Unknown

1790–1800

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Maple (drawer front); chestnut (drawer bottom); yellow poplar (drawer sides)

Dimensions

2 1/2 × 6 3/4 × 7 3/4 in. (6.4 × 17.1 × 19.7 cm)

Accession Number

2019ANA-S.8.291

Geography

Made in Southington, Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Doctor Hart House, Southington, Conn.; sold to Frank MacCarthy (1893–1957), Longmeadow, Mass., 1929; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York; gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Inscriptions

"This small drawer is form the interior / of a tambour-door desk in the Doctor / Hart House at Southington, Connecticut. / The desk was sold some years ago at / which time the drawer could not be found. Period probably 1790-1800. [in typescript] /Frank MacCarthy /July 27, 1929.," in ink, on paper label held to interior of drawer with a thumbtack

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