Miniature Chest Maker: Unknown

ca. 1700

American Decorative Arts

Not on view
Medium

Oak

Dimensions

19 1/2 × 25 3/8 × 15 in. (49.5 × 64.5 × 38.1 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2133

Geography

Made in New England

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
C. W. Lyon (1872–1945), New York, before 1928; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York; gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930
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), 457, app. no. 3, ill
  • Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), n.p., no. 49, vol. 1
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

chests

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