Medicine chest Maker: Unknown

1775–95

American Decorative Arts

Not on view
Medium

Mahogany, including bottom and partitions in bottle compartments; Atlantic white cedar

Dimensions

14 1/2 × 14 1/16 × 14 in. (36.9 × 35.7 × 35.6 cm)
other (open): 27 7/16 in. (69.7 cm)
other (Case, closed): 13 11/16 × 13 11/16 in. (34.7 × 34.7 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2121

Geography

Made in Pennsylvania

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Acquired by Mr. and Mrs. G.G. Ernst, collectors, of Norwalk, Conn., between about 1898 and 1925; acquired at auction in 1926 by Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; 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), 4, 13, 57, 74–76, no. 16
  • American Art Galleries and American Art Association, New York, The Early American Collection of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Ernst, Norwalk, Conn., sale cat. (January 20–23, 1926), 171, no. 803, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

medicine chests

Inscriptions

"769" is written in modern blue chalk on the underside of the bottom of the wide interior drawer.

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