Box on table Maker: Unknown

1815–40

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Eastern white pine (box top and sides, drawer bottom), black cherry (box bottom and back, drawer front), soft maple (legs), sycamore (stretcher); yellow-poplar (drawer interior)

Dimensions

28 3/4 × 20 1/16 × 16 13/16 in. (73 × 50.9 × 42.7 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1950.707

Geography

Possibly made in United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Acquired by W.B. Nichols, Springfield, Mass. [see note 1]; acquired by Charles Woolsey Lyon (1872–1945), Albany and New York, by November 1918; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, November 1, 1918; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1950

Note 1: This is possibly the "painted . . . done on paper in water-colors" that Garvan purchased from Charles Woolsey Lyon on November 1, 1918. According to the bill of sale, Lyon acquired this object from a W.B. Nichols of Springfield, Massachusetts, who in turn had purchased it from an unidentified woman in South Wethersfield, Conn., "in whose family it had always been" (Lyon to Garvan, November 1, 1918, Charles Woolsey Lyon file, Francis P. Garvan. Correspondence and Related Papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.).
Bibliography
  • 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), 377, no. A30, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

tables (support furniture)

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