Desk and bookcase Maker: Unknown

1760–90

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black cherry, including bookshelves and lopers; eastern white pine

Dimensions

90 3/8 × 41 3/4 × 20 11/16 in. (229.6 × 106.1 × 52.5 cm)
other (open): 33 1/16 in. (83.9 cm)
other (Upper case): 36 13/16 × 8 1/2 in. (93.5 × 21.6 cm)
other (Lower case): 38 3/8 × 18 3/4 in. (97.4 × 47.7 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2276

Geography

Made in Connecticut, Probably made in New London County

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
William Tynan, Middletown, CT; by sale in 1928 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), 344–46, no. 178, ill
  • Luke Vincent Lockwood, Three Centuries of Connecticut Furniture, 1635–1935: An Exhibition at the Morgan Memorial, Hartford as art of the Celebration of the Tercentenary of Connecticut, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Morgan Memorial, 1935), 28, no. 231
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

The desk interior drawers are labeled in white chalk with locations on the inside of the back and were numbered later in pencil, along with the drawer compartments. "LOVE / ANITA / '61" and "1960" are written in ink on the underside of the bottom of the middle drawer on the left side of the desk interior.

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