Desk and bookcase Maker: Unknown

1700–1730

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black cherry; yellow poplar; drawer fronts in desk interior, feet, eastern red cedar; replaced moldings, walnut

Dimensions

72 × 37 13/16 × 21 11/16 in. (182.9 × 96 × 55.1 cm)
other (open): 33 9/16 in. (85.3 cm)
other (Upper case): 34 3/16 × 10 3/4 in. (86.9 × 27.3 cm)
other (Lower case): 36 1/4 × 20 1/2 in. (92.1 × 52 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1931.1233

Geography

Made in Connecticut, or New York

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
Henry V. Weil, New York; by sale in 1927 to Francis P. Garvan, New York. Gift in 1931 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), 331–32, no. 173, ill
  • Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1950), 157, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

There are numerous chalk marks on the inside of both bookcase doors and columns of addition on the top of the desk interior. A fragment of what appears to be a modern recipe for soup is pasted to the inside of the front of the lowest drawer in the desk.

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