Chest with drawers Maker, possibly by: Peter Blin (American, born England, died 1725)

1675–1710

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Stiles, rails, front and side panels, drawer fronts, sides, and runners, cleats, till, white oak; top, back panels, bottom of chest, drawer bottoms and backs, southern yellow pine; applied spindles and moldings, possibly maple; applied triangular corners, possibly cedar

Dimensions

39 3/4 × 47 13/16 × 21 7/16 in. (101 × 121.4 × 54.5 cm)
other (Case): 44 13/16 × 19 3/4 in. (113.9 × 50.1 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2191

Geography

Made in Wethersfield, Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

17th–18th 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
Dr. George Coopernail, Bedford, N.Y.; by sale to Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Christina Borger, "Hidden Treasures," New Haven Register (December 13, 2009), E1, ill
  • Susan Schoelwer, "Connecticut Sunflower Furniture: A Familiar Form Reconsidered," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 40, no. 2 (Spring 1989), 24, 31, fig. 3, 11
  • 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), 81, 93–95, 382, 457, no. 27, ill
  • Wendy A. Cooper, "A Historic Event: The 1929 'Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition'," American Art Journal (Winter 1980), 32, illus. in view of 1929 show, fig. 4
  • Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (Suffolk, England: Antique Collector's Club Ltd., 1979), 507, 509, fig. 4:210
  • Daniel M. Mendelowitz, A History of American Art, 2d ed. (New York: Rinehart and Winston, 1973), 62
  • Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 12, no. 16, ill
  • Louis B. Wright, The Arts in America: The Colonial Period (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966), 255–56, pl. 181
  • John T. Kirk, "Sources of Some American Regional Furniture," Antiques 88 (December 1965), 790–92, fig. 1
  • Meyric R. Rogers, "Garvan Furniture at Yale," Connoisseur Year Book, 1960 (1960), 54, fig. 2
  • Edgar G. Miller, American Antique Furniture: A Book for Amateurs, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1937), vol. 1, pp. 340–42, no. 598
  • Thomas H. Ormsbee, The Story of American Furniture (New York: MacMillan Company, 1934), 58–60, fig. 19A
  • Girl Scouts of the United States of America, Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Furniture and Glass, exh. cat. (New York: Lent & Graff Company, 1929), no. 504
  • Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Furniture and Glass, exh. cat. (New York: American Art Galleries, 1929), n.p., no. 504, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

chests with drawers

Inscriptions

A "Connecticut Furniture" (1967) exhibition label is pasted to the underside of the top.

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