Pembroke Tables Maker: Unknown

1785–1800

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study

This table is a classic example of the sophisticated inlaid furniture made in New York City during the Federal period. Inlays of increasing size on the legs enhance their vertical thrust; lightwood stringing around the edges of the top and drawer front accentuates their curved lines. These ornamental features accounted for more than half the table's original cost.

Medium

Mahogany, mahogany veneer, maple stringing, yellow-poplar (drawer linings), black cherry (hinged rails), eastern white pine (stationary rails)

Dimensions

27 15/16 × 18 11/16 × 31 5/8 in. (71 × 47.5 × 80.4 cm)
open: 40 3/16 in. (102 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2605a-b

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

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
William Moore; Jacob Margolis (1875–unknown), New York; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, 1926; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930

Sources: Connecticut, U.S., Federal Naturalization Records, 1790-1996 - AncestryLibrary.com
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), 149, no. 61, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

"II" is incised on the inside of the two front rails of 1930.2605a. "1857", "18", and an illegible inscription in an eighteenth-century hand are written in pencil on the left drawer side of 1930.2605b.

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