Miniature Sofa | Yale University Art Gallery

1820–30

Medium: Mahogany; side rails and cross braces, American cherry; corner blocks, white pine
Dimensions: 14 3/4 × 21 × 9 1/8 in. (37.5 × 53.3 × 23.2 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2097
Geography: Probably made in New York, New York
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Francis P. Garvan, New York, N.Y.; The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection.

Bibliography

Patricia E. Kane, 300 Years of American Seating Furniture Chairs and Beds from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 250-52, no. 235, ill

Herbert F. Schiffer and Peter B. Schiffer, Miniature Antique Furniture (Wynnewood, Pa.: Livingston Publishing Co., 1972), 230, fig. 232

Joseph Aronson, The New Encyclopedia of Furniture (New York: Crown Publishers, 1967), 185, fig. 542

Classical America, 1815–1845: An Exhibition at the Newark Museum, exh. cat. (Newark, N.J.: Newark Museum, 1963), 57, 78, no. 45

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Additional information

Object/Work type

sofas

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