Chest of drawers Maker: Unknown

1670–1710

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Stiles, side tails, bottom rear rail, sides of bottom two drawers, drawer dividers, drawer runners, top, red oak and white oak; side panels, drawer fronts, sides of top two drawers, drawer dividers, drawer runners, top, red oak and white oak; side panels, drawer fronts, sides of top two drawers, chestnut; bottom, drawer bottoms, eastern white pine; back panels, red or Scotch pine; top and middle back rails, soft maple; turned feet, beech; applied strips on drawer fronts and stiles, walnut; applied moldings, cedar, either Atlantic white cedar or nothern white cedar; replaced half-round moldings on drawer dividers, yellow poplar

Dimensions

36 5/8 × 38 3/4 × 20 1/4 in. (93 × 98.4 × 51.4 cm)
other (Case): 37 1/2 × 19 7/8 in. (95.3 × 50.5 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2391

Geography

Made in East Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

17th–18th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
A small piece of ruled paper glued to the outside of the back bears the inscription in ink, "Given to / Clara M. Griffin / in 1905." The identity of Clara M. Griffin has not been discovered. Henry V. Weil, New York NY; by sale to Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Joshua A. Klein, "An Unjustified Mystique: Period Dovetails Up-Close," Mortise and Tenon Magazine (2016), 111, ill
  • 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), 123, 132–33, no. 54, ill
  • Walter A. Dyer, "The American Bureau: Primitive to Chippendale," Fine Arts 2, no. 18 (January 1932), 39, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

chests of drawers

Inscriptions

A small piece of ruled paper glued to the outside of the back bears the inscription in ink, "Given to / Clara M. Griffin in 1905."

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