Dressing table Maker: Unknown

1750–80

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black walnut; drawer sides and backs, yellow poplar; drawer bottoms, Atlantic white cedar

Dimensions

28 1/2 × 34 3/8 × 20 1/4 in. (72.4 × 87.3 × 51.5 cm)
other (Case): 77 3/16 × 17 15/16 in. (196.1 × 45.6 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2627

Geography

Made in Delaware Valley

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Probably firm of Winick & Sherman, New York; probably by sale to Mrs. Gertrude H. Camp, Whitemarch, Pa.: acquired at auction in 1928 by Francis P. Garvan, New York. Gift in 1930 to 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), 224–25, no. 115, ill
  • Edgar G. Miller, American Antique Furniture: A Book for Amateurs, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1937), vol. 1, pp. 392–93, no. 695
  • Anderson Galleries, New York, Eighteenth Century American Furniture Colonial and Georgian Silver: A Remarkable Collection Sold by Order of Mrs. Gertrude H. Camp, "The Hayloft," Whitemarsh, PA, sale cat. (January 20–21, 1928), lot 43
  • Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), n.p., no. 416
  • "Winick and Sherman advertisement," Antiques 12, no. 6 (June 1927), 499, ill
  • "Winick and Sherman advertisement," Antiques 5, no. 11 (May 1927), 354, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

dressing tables

Inscriptions

Written in red ink on the inside of the top drawer is "37" next to a modern printed label bearing the same number in ink.

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