Dressing table Maker: Unknown

1750–80

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black walnut; back, southern yellow pine; drawer sides and backs, yellow-poplar drawer bottom, Atlantic white cedar

Dimensions

29 3/4 × 34 13/16 × 20 1/4 in. (75.6 × 88.5 × 51.5 cm)
other (Case): 28 7/8 × 18 7/16 in. (73.4 × 46.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2088

Geography

Made in Delaware Valley, Possibly made in New Jersey

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Frances Wolfe Carey, Haddonfield, N. J., stated in a letter of 8 August 1927 to A. W. Clarke, Mr. Garvan's agent: "I am enclosing a photograph of the little low-boy which I procured near here recently. . . . This piece has been in one family for generations, and I procured it personally from the owner." Francis P. Garvan, New York, purchased the table in 1927. Gift in 1930 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), 223–24, no. 114, ill
  • Charles Nagel, Jr., American Furniture: 1650–1850 (New York: Chanticleer Press, 1949), 34, 42, 45–46, pl. 10b
  • Thomas H. Ormsbee, "Antique Furniture with Double Uses," American Collector 12, no.1 (February 1943), 11, ill
  • Thomas H. Ormsbee, "Chippendale as Followed at Home and in America," American Collector 6, no. 12 (January 1938), 2
  • Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), n.p., no. 408
  • "Frances Wolfe Carey advertisement," Antiquarian 9, no. 2 (September 1927), 11, ill
  • "Frances Wolfe Carey Antiques advertisement," Antiques 11, no. 3 (March 1927), 172, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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dressing tables

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