Chest of drawers Maker: Unknown

1670–1700

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Stiles, front and side rails, cornice and base molding, drawer runners, drawer sides in top and bottom drawer, red oak and white oak; side panels, back panels, back rails and muntin, drawer fronts and bottoms, bottom, eastern white pine; drawer sides in deep drawer and one below, sycamore; applied moldings, eastern white pine; applied strips on drawer fronts, walnut; front feet, soft maple, probably silver maple

Dimensions

37 1/8 × 38 7/8 × 23 in. (94.3 × 98.7 × 58.4 cm)
other (Case): 36 1/8 × 21 15/16 in. (91.7 × 55.7 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1942.252

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Henry V. Weil, New York; by sale in 1926 to Francis P. Garvan, New York; by descent in 1937 to Mabel Brady Garvan, New York Gift 1942 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), 11–12, 123, 129–30, no. 52, ill
  • Walter A. Dyer, "The American Bureau: Primitive to Chippendale," Fine Arts 2, no. 18 (January 1932), 38, ill
  • Anderson Galleries, New York, Furniture and Silver by American Master Craftsmen of Colonial and Early Federal Times...Sold by Order of Francis P. Garvan, sale cat. (January 8–10, 1931), no. 402
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

chests of drawers

Inscriptions

The top edge of each drawer side is numbered I to IIII from top to bottom. "M" or "W," in chalk, on underside

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