Desk-on-Frame | Yale University Art Gallery

1780–1795

Medium: American black cherry; eastern white pine; back of frame, secret compartment, other elements, butternut
Dimensions: 38 1/2 × 38 7/16 × 20 11/16 in. (97.8 × 97.6 × 52.5 cm)
other (Upper case): 34 7/16 × 17 13/16 in. (87.4 × 45.2 cm)
other (Lower case): 36 3/8 × 18 11/16 in. (92.4 × 47.5 cm)
other (open): 30 1/2 in. (77.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of C. Sanford Bull, B.A. 1893
Accession Number: 1953.50.1
Geography: Made in Hartford, Connecticut
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

C. Sanford Bull, Middlebury, Conn.; gift to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1953

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), 197–98, no. 91, 91A.

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, 289, 298–300, no. 155, ill.

Elaine Ulman, "I'm Perfectly Willing to Write Bold Statements, Be Wrong, and Be Corrected. . . The True Emphasis in My Work is Learning to See," Antiques World 10, no. 2 (October 1980): 64.

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), 144–45, fig. 146.

Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 70, no. 117.

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desks-on-frames

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