Chest of Drawers Maker: Unknown

1790–1810

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Soft maple; eastern white pine

Dimensions

39 1/8 × 40 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (99.4 × 102.9 × 52.1 cm)
other (Case): 36 5/8 × 18 9/16 in. (93 × 47.1 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2152

Geography

Made in Southern New Hampshire

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Charles R. Morson, New York; by sale to 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), 123, 144–45, 211, 311, 463, no. 64, ill
  • Marshall B. Davidson, The Bantam Illustrated Guide to Early American Furniture (New York: Bantam Books, 1980), 181, fig. 13
  • Charles Parsons, "Auction of the Month," National Antiques Review 2, no.2 (August 1970), 31, ill
  • Charles Parsons and David S. Brooke, "The Dunlap Cabinetmakers," Antiques 98 (August 1970), 229, fig. 10
  • Charles Parsons, The Dunlaps and Their Furniture (Manchester, N.H.: The Currier Gallery of Art, 1970), n.p., [included in catalogue but not in exhibition], fig. 53
  • Marshall B. Davidson, The American Heritage History of Colonial Antiques (New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1967), 229, fig. 325
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

chests of drawers

Inscriptions

"B" appears in white chalk on the inside of each drawer back. The inside of each drawer bottom is numbered from 1 to 4, from top to bottom, although some of these numbers may not be original.

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