Military chest | Yale University Art Gallery

1785–1815

Not on view

Medium: Oak, ash, beech
Dimensions: 32 1/2 × 55 1/2 × 25 in. (82.6 × 141 × 63.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Miss Maude A. K. Wetmore
Accession Number: 1950.144
Geography: Possibly made in
Culture: Probably European
Period: 18th–19th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Gift in 1950 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), 457–58, app. no. 5, ill

John T. Kirk, Early American Furniture: How to Recognize, Evaluate, and Care for the Most Beautiful Pieces: High Style, Country, Primitive and Rustic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), 177–78, fig. 179–80

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

chests

“C. S[or J or L]eb. Wellen / 1860,” on exterior backboard

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