Box | Yale University Art Gallery

1660–90

Medium: All four sides, cleats, white oak; top, bottom, southern yellow pine
Dimensions: 9 1/16 × 26 7/16 × 16 3/8 in. (23 × 67.1 × 41.6 cm)
other (Case): 24 5/16 × 15 5/16 in. (61.7 × 38.9 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2260
Geography: Made in Southeastern Massachusetts, or Connecticut coast
Culture: American
Period: 17th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York; by sale in 1929 to Francis P. Garvan, New York Gift 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), 4, 57, 60–61, no. 2

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Object/Work type

boxes (containers)

"H S" is carved on the front in the central leaf and probably represents the initials of the unidentified original owner.

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