Box Maker: Unknown

1660–80

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study

Medium

White oak

Dimensions

13 1/16 × 28 3/8 × 17 15/16 in. (33.2 × 72.1 × 45.5 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2145

Geography

Made in New England, United States, or England

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
According to tradition, from Portland, Maine; Wallace Nutting, Framingham, Mass., by sale in 1928 to Francis P. Garvan, New York; gift 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), 57, 59, no. 1.
  • Douglass Scott, Joan Ketter, and Michael Boodro, The American Clock, 1725–1865, Forgeries and Restorations in American Furniture: Two Yale Student Exhibitions, May 18–June 28, 1974, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Garvan Furniture Study, May 18–June 28, 1974), n.p., no. 16.
  • Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), n.p., fig. 149.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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