Chest-on-chest Maker: Unknown

1770–1800

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black walnut; top and bottom of cases, other interior elements, southern yellow pine; drawer linings, other secondary elements, yellow poplar

Dimensions

92 3/8 × 45 3/16 × 22 7/8 in. (234.6 × 114.7 × 58.1 cm)
other (Upper case): 40 13/16 × 20 11/16 in. (103.7 × 52.5 cm)
other (Lower case): 42 13/16 × 21 1/2 in. (108.7 × 54.6 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1950.698

Geography

Made in Pennsylvania

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
Jacob Margolis, New York; acquired at auction in 1927 by Francis P. Garvan, New York; by descent in 1937 to Mabel Brady Garvan, New York 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), 163, 191–92, no. 91, ill
  • Edgar G. Miller, American Antique Furniture: A Book for Amateurs, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1937), vol. 1, pp. 353, 355–56, no. 621
  • Edward Wenham, The Collector's Guide to Furniture Design (New York: Collectors Press Lithography Workshop, 1928), 74, fig. 204
  • American Art Association, New York, The Jacob Margolis Early American Collection, sale cat. (March 17–19, 1927), no. 447
  • "Antiquarian," Antiquarian 7, no. 5 (December 1926), 24
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

chests-on-chests, utilitarian objects

Inscriptions

There are numerous chalk shop marks and numbers on the interior of the cases, and there is an indecipherable word on the underisde of the top dustboard in the upper case. The chalk inscription "bk" appears on the inside of the back of the upper and lower case. There are old chalk drawings, probably of a finial, on the inside of the left side of the top wide drawer in the upper case. The modern "130" is written twice in black on the outside of the back of each case and the pediment frame.

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