Table with Drawer Maker: Unknown

1765–90

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

The primary wood, as well as the diagonal brace under the top and the drawer runners, has been identified as belonging to the family Lauraceae (laurel) and may possibly be red bay. The other secondary woods are mahogany (drawer sides and back) and baldcypress (drawer bottom)

Dimensions

28 3/4 × 42 15/16 × 28 7/16 in. (73 × 109.1 × 72.2 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2586

Geography

Made in Charleston, South Carolina

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
Sale, Charleston Auction and Sales Company, Charleston, S.C., February 8, 1929; sold through Arthur W. Clarke, Brooklyn, to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, February 8, 1929 [see note 1]; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930

Note 1: Bill from Charleston Auction and Sales Company, February 8, 1929, (C-miscellaneous file, Francis P. Garvan. Correspondence and Related Papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; see also Clarke to Garvan, February 9, 1929, Clarke file, C-miscellaneous file, Francis P. Garvan. Correspondence and Related Papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
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), 108–10, no. 34, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

tables (support furniture)

Inscriptions

"# 59" is handwritten in ink on a paper label affixed to the inside of the right frame rail. "The Litchfield / Historical / Society" is printed and "B / 87 / 5151" is written on a paper label attached to the inside of the drawer.

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