Four drawers from a high chest in the Seth Cowles House, Hatfield, Massachusetts Maker: Unknown

n.d.

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Cherry, pine

Dimensions

each: 3 1/2 × 11 × 16 1/2 in. (8.9 × 27.9 × 41.9 cm)

Accession Number

2019ANA-S.8.315a-d

Culture

American

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Frank MacCarthy (1893–1957). Longmeadow, Mass.; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York; gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
Not Assigned
Additional information

Object/Work type

high chests

Marks

"This group of four drawers came from the Seth Cowles / House at Hatfield, Massachusetts. There [sic] were from the upper / part of the top of a bonnet-top cherry highboy. This highboy / was Intact when the house passed out of the ownership of the / Cowles” descendents 12 years ago. Only these four drawers / have survived, the remainder of the piece having been cut up / through the years to make tobacco plant setting boxes. John / Cowles was in Farmington, Connecticut in 1652, removed about 1664 to Hatfield, freeman there 1666, died there September 1675. He was the first of the name in Hatfield.,” in typescript, “Frank MacCarthy / July 28, 1929.",” in black ink, on a paper label secured to interior of one drawer with thumb tack

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