Chest with drawer Maker: Unknown

1680–1710

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study

The front, back, sides, and bottom of this six-board chest are rabbeted and nailed together; the lid is attached by hinges. The simple decoration is made with molding planes and chisels. Compared to examples of joined furniture from the Connecticut River Valley, the construction of this chest is relatively simple, as is its limited amount of surface decoration.

Medium

Top, all four sides, bottom of chest, drawer bottom and back, southern yellow pine; drawer sides, till, white oak

Dimensions

29 3/16 × 56 7/16 × 19 3/8 in. (74.1 × 143.3 × 49.2 cm)
other (Case): 52 13/16 × 17 3/4 in. (134.1 × 45.1 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2218

Geography

Made in Central Connecticut, Probably made in East Windsor

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
Stoughton family, East Windsor, Conn. Possibly Thomas Stoughton or his son John (1657-1713). Henry V. Weil, New York, 20th century; Francis P. Garvan, New York, 1929–30; 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), 33, 81, 103–4, no. 35, pl. 2
  • William N. Hosley and Philip Zea, "Decorated Board Chests of the Connecticut River Valley," Antiques 119 (May 1981), 1148–49, fig. 7
  • Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (Suffolk, England: Antique Collector's Club Ltd., 1979), 369, fig. 3:400
  • Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 19, no. 28, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

chests with drawers

Inscriptions

There is a great deal of writing in chalk on the underside of the top, much of it illegible. One inscription, which appears to be early, reads "Stoughton / East Windsor / Hartford [?] Conn." "H T" is incised on the underside of the top as well.

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