High chest of drawers Maker: Unknown

1700–1730

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black cherry; legs, feet, soft maple; drawer linings, other elements, yellow poplar; corner posts, blocks above two center legs, red oak and white oak; drawer runners in upper case, chestnut

Dimensions

56 7/8 × 41 13/16 × 23 3/16 in. (144.5 × 106.2 × 58.9 cm)
other (Upper case): 36 × 20 1/16 in. (91.4 × 51 cm)
other (Lower case): 41 3/8 × 22 13/16 in. (105.1 × 57.9 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2312

Geography

Made in Connecticut

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
Acquired at auction in 1929 by Francis P. Garvan, New York. Gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Joshua A. Klein, "An Unjustified Mystique: Period Dovetails Up-Close," Mortise and Tenon Magazine (2016), 113, 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), 246–47, no. 127, ill
  • Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 44, no. 73, [included in catalogue but not in exhibition], ill
  • Anderson Galleries, New York, American and English Furniture and Decorations from Various Private Collections and Other Sources, sale cat. (November 19–21, 1929), no. 600
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

high chests of drawers

Inscriptions

Written in black on the underside of the bottom of the upper case is the enigmatic "Land on / Lad don." There are numbers in white chalk on the inside of the sides of the upper case, and some chalk shop marks are present.

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