Slant top desk | Yale University Art Gallery

1700–1875

Not on view

Medium: Cherry, maple, yellow poplar
Dimensions: 39 5/8 × 32 5/8 × 19 5/8 in. (100.6 × 82.9 × 49.8 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2573
Geography: Made in New England
Culture: American
Period: 18th–19th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Acquired in the nineteenth century by Irving W. Lyon. Gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. in 1930.

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), 464–65, app. no. 20, ill

Irving W. Lyon, The Colonial Furniture of New England: A Study of the Domestic Furniture in Use in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1891), 119–20, facing p. 120, fig. 48

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Additional information

Object/Work type

slant-front desks

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