Corner Washstand Maker: Unknown

1785–1800

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany with pine drawer lining

Dimensions

36 15/16 × 21 11/16 × 14 5/8 in. (93.9 × 55.1 × 37.1 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2694

Geography

Made in Northern coastal Massachusetts, or New Hampshire

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Wallace Nutting (1861–1941), Newburyport, Mass., by 1918; sold to Au Quatrieme [see note 1], New York; sale, John Wanamaker, New York, September 1918, lot 1261; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, September 1918; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930

Note 1: Nutting displayed the table in the Cutler-Bartlet House in Newburyport, Mass. In 1918, Nutting sold the furnishings from this house to Au Quatrieme, the antiques department at John Wanamaker's department store in New York.
Bibliography
  • David L. Barquist, Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, and Gerald W. R. Ward, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 269–70, no. 146, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

"2" is written on a paper label glued inside the drawer bottom, and the same numeral is painted in red adjacent to the label. Illegible pencil notations are written on the drawer's underside.

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