Chest-on-chest | Yale University Art Gallery

1760–90

Medium: Mahogany; eastern white pine; "flame" section of finial, probably maple; replaced urn support, probably ash
Dimensions: 86 7/8 × 44 13/16 × 23 11/16 in. (220.6 × 113.9 × 60.1 cm)
other (Upper case): 39 15/16 × 19 3/4 in. (101.5 × 50.1 cm)
other (Lower case): 42 1/8 × 21 15/16 in. (107 × 55.7 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2079
Geography: Made in Essex County, Massachusetts
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Henry V. Weil, New York; by sale in 1923 to 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), 169–70, no. 80, ill

Meyric R. Rogers, "The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection of Furniture," Yale Alumni Magazine 25, no. 4 (January 1962), 12, ill

Charles Nagel, Jr., American Furniture: 1650–1850 (New York: Chanticleer Press, 1949), 54, pl. 22a

Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), n.p., no. 299

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

chests-on-chests, utilitarian objects

"To Bo[x]ford" written in white chalk across the back

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