Dressing Table Maker: Unknown

1740–60

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study

The positive and negative outline of the semicircular notches and drops on the skirt of this dressing table is well suited to the aesthetics of the period, where geometric designs were particularly fashionable. Similarities can be seen between the contour of the cabriole legs and the exaggerated S-curve handles of some silver drinking vessels made around the 1730s.

Medium

American black walnut, southern yellow pine

Dimensions

29 1/16 × 33 7/16 × 20 11/16 in. (73.8 × 85 × 52.5 cm)
other (Case): 29 3/16 × 17 13/16 in. (74.1 × 45.2 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2275

Geography

Made in Delaware Valley, Probably made in New Jersey

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Dr. McStevens, Easton, MD; 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), 219–20, no. 111, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

dressing tables

Inscriptions

There is illegible writing in red on the outside of both sides of a lower drawer.

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