Chest-on-chest Maker: Unknown

probably 1802

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study

Medium

American black cherry; eastern white pine

Dimensions

82 1/4 × 43 3/16 × 19 in. (208.9 × 109.7 × 48.2 cm)
other (Lower case): 17 7/8 × 41 in. (45.4 × 104.1 cm)
other (Upper case): 38 7/8 × 16 3/4 in. (98.7 × 42.5 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2533

Geography

Probably made in Granby, Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Mrs. Horace Clark (née Hannah Forward, 1785-1882), Granby, Conn., probably 1802; by descent in her family; sold to Francis P. Garvan, New York; by gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930
Bibliography

  • Thomas Peter Kugelman et al., Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800, ed. Susan Schoelwer (Hartford, Conn.: Connecticut Historical Society Museum, 2005), 348–49, no. 161, 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), 182–84, 298, 345, no. 86, ill.
  • 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), 98, 102, fig. 81.
  • John T. Kirk, Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 62, no. 105.
  • Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 62, no. 105.
  • Robert Rantoul Endicott, "Cherry Was the Mahogany of New England," American Collector 2, no. 5 (March 1936): 5, ill.
  • Three Centuries of Connecticut Furniture, 1635–1935: An Exhibition at the Morgan Memorial, Hartford, as a Part of the Celebrations of the Tercentenary of Connecticut, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1935), 22, pl. 154, ill.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

chests-on-chests, utilitarian objects

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