Clothespress | Yale University Art Gallery

1680–1710

Medium: Southern yellow pine
Dimensions: 66 7/16 × 51 × 29 1/4 in. (168.8 × 129.5 × 74.3 cm)
other (Case): 48 7/8 × 28 1/16 in. (124.1 × 71.3 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2660
Geography: Made in the South, Possibly made in Virginia
Culture: American
Period: 17th–18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

J. K. Beard, Richmond, VA; by sale to 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), 8, 375, 394–95, no. 203, ill

Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (Suffolk, England: Antique Collector's Club Ltd., 1979), 329, fig. 3:289

Paul H. Burroughs, Southern Antiques (Richmond, Va.: Garrett & Massie Incorporated, 1931), 128–29, 133, pl. II

Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 1, p. 369, 371, fig. XXXIX.

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