Tea table Maker: Theodosius Parsons (American)

1787–93

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Black cherry

Dimensions

27 3/8 in. (69.6 cm)
other (Top up): 47 1/4 in. (120 cm)
other (Top): 36 1/4 in. (92 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2458

Geography

Made in Windham, Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
With Frank MacCarthy (1893–1957), Longmeadow, Mass., by January 17, 1930; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, January 17, 1930; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930
Bibliography
  • Sarah Neale Fayen, "Tilt-Top Tables and Eighteenth-Century Consumerism," American Furniture (2003), 115, 117, fig. 29, 31
  • David L. Barquist, Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, and Gerald W. R. Ward, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 74, 233–35, no. 123, ill
  • The Devotion Family: The Lives and Possessions of Three Generations in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut (New London, Conn.: Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 1991), 21, 54, fig. 8
  • Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 96, no. 166, ill
  • Charles Nagel, Jr., "Room from the Joel Clark House, East Granby, Connecticut, 1737," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 4, no. 3 (October 1932), 139
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

tea tables

Inscriptions

Theodosius P[arsons] / CHAIR-MAKER and JOINER; / WINDHAM." is printed on a paper label pasted to the center of the underside of the top.

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