Cupboard Maker: Unknown

1670–1710

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Oak, pine, maple

Dimensions

63 1/8 × 46 11/16 × 23 5/8 in. (160.3 × 118.6 × 60 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2778

Geography

Made in Essex County, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

17th 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
This cupboard was once in the collection of the noted Salem antiquarian, Henry F. Waters (1800-1900). 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), 468, app. no. 26, ill.
  • Barbara M. Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., Silver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1979), 34, 102–3, no. 77, ill.
  • Judith Bernstein et al., The Eye of the Beholder: Fakes, Replicas, and Alterations in American Art, ed. Gerald W. R. Ward, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1977), 36, fig. 33.
  • Richard H. Saunders, "Collecting American Decorative Arts in New England: Part I, 1793–1876," Antiques 109, no. 5 (May 1976): 1001, pl. 3.
  • John T. Kirk, Early American Furniture: How to Recognize, Evaluate, and Care for the Most Beautiful Pieces: High Style, Country, Primitive and Rustic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), 189, 191, fig. 189.
  • Irving P. Lyon, "The Oak Furniture of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Part V: Small-Panel Type Affiliates," Antiques 33, no. 6 (June 1938): 322–23, fig. 42.
  • Herbert Cescinsky and George Leland Hunter, English and American Furniture (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Dean-Hicks Company, 1929), 47, ill.
  • Anderson Galleries, New York, Fifth Sale of Fine Early American Furniture: Gathered by Jacob Margolis Cabinet Maker of New York City, sale cat. (November 12–15, 1924), 107–8, ill.
  • Frances Clary Morse, Furniture of the Olden Time (New York: MacMillan Company, 1908), 82, illus. 56.
  • Esther Singleton, The Furniture of Our Forefathers, 2 vols. (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1900–1901), 169, ill.
  • Newton W. Elwell, Colonial Furniture and Interiors (Boston: G.H. Polley & Co., 1896), pl. 48.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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