Chest of drawers | Yale University Art Gallery

1700–1735

Not on view

Medium: Maple, burl veneer, eastern white pine
Dimensions: 37 × 36 1/8 × 20 1/4 in. (94 × 91.8 × 51.4 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2230
Geography: Made in Massachusetts
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

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), 458, app. no. 6, ill

Harold Sack, "Authenticating American Eighteenth-Century Furniture," Antiques 127, no. 5 (May 1985), 1126, pl. III

John T. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 177, fig. 477

John T. Kirk, Early American Furniture: How to Recognize, Evaluate, and Care for the Most Beautiful Pieces: High Style, Country, Primitive and Rustic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), 182, fig. 183

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Additional information

Object/Work type

chests of drawers

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