Chest of drawers | Yale University Art Gallery

1790–1815

Not on view

Medium: American black walnut, light- and dark- wood inlay; drawer backs; other elements, yellow poplar; bottom of case, other elements, eastern white pine
Dimensions: 54 3/16 × 42 × 20 1/2 in. (137.6 × 106.7 × 52 cm)
other (Case): 40 15/16 × 19 3/4 in. (104 × 50.1 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2319
Geography: Made in Pennsylvania
Culture: American
Period: 18th–19th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

A.J. Pennypacker, Pennsburg, PA; by sale to Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; 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), 151–52, no. 70, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

chests of drawers

There are shop marks in white chalk throughout the case.

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