Desk and bookcase on frame Maker: Unknown
Maker, possibly by: Joseph C. Clark

1780–1795

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black cherry; yellow poplar; eastern white pine

Dimensions

90 1/2 × 40 1/2 × 21 7/16 in. (229.9 × 102.9 × 54.5 cm)
other (Upper case): 34 3/4 × 11 7/8 in. (88.3 × 30.1 cm)
other (Lower case): 36 1/2 × 18 1/16 in. (92.7 × 45.9 cm)
framed (Frame): 38 1/4 × 19 3/16 in. (97.2 × 48.8 cm)
other (open): 30 1/16 in. (76.4 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of C. Sanford Bull, B.A. 1893

Accession Number

1949.243

Geography

Made in Glastonbury or Middletown, Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Acquired before 1928 by C. Sanford Bull (1871–1955), Middlebury, Conn.; by gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1949
Bibliography
  • Thomas Peter Kugelman et al., Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800, ed. Susan Schoelwer (Hartford, Conn.: Connecticut Historical Society Museum, 2005), 332–33, no. 153, 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), 9, 346–48, no. 179, ill
  • Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 75, no. 126, ill
  • "Living with Antiques: The Connecticut Home of Mr. and Mrs. C. Sanford Bull," Antiques 4, no. 45 (April 1944), 191, ill
  • Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), n.p., no. 709
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

"Monday / Jan 1825" is written in black ink on the inside of the right side of the bookcase. "Clark" and many illegible words and numbers are written in white chalk on the inside of the back of the bookcase. There are chalk shop marks on the drawers and case and illegible writing in pencil on the inside of the bottom of the double-valance drawer in the desk interior. There are figures in pencil on the underside of the bottom of the lowest case drawer. The numbers "65" and "601" and illegible writing in pencil appear on the top of the top of the desk. A "Connecticut Furniture" (1967) exhibition label is pasted to the inside of the right side of the top wide drawer in the case.

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