Dressing table Maker: Unknown

1770–90

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black cherry; drawer sides and backs, lower drawer runners, strips nailed to sides under top, white oak; back, drawer bottoms, upper drawer runners, other framing elements, eastern white pine

Dimensions

31 7/16 × 36 7/16 × 21 1/2 in. (79.9 × 92.6 × 54.6 cm)
other (Case): 32 3/16 × 18 1/4 in. (81.7 × 46.3 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2075

Geography

Made in Newtown, 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
In a letter of 24 September 1929, dealer Henry Hammond Taylor informed Francis P. Garvan that this "cherry lowboy with the C scrolls on legs and original brasses.came from the Johnson family on Main St. Newtown, CT, and has always been in this family" Francis P. Garvan, New York 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), 210–11, 212, 461, no. 104, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

dressing tables

Inscriptions

A paper printed label of modern origin is pasted to the inside of the right side of the top drawer and bears the typed "#123." To its right is another printed paper label of the Litchfield Historical Society and the object's loan number.

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