Chest of drawers

Date

1670–1710

Medium

Stiles, side tails, bottom rear rail, sides of bottom two drawers, drawer dividers, drawer runners, top, red oak and white oak; side panels, drawer fronts, sides of top two drawers, drawer dividers, drawer runners, top, red oak and white oak; side panels, drawer fronts, sides of top two drawers, chestnut; bottom, drawer bottoms, eastern white pine; back panels, red or Scotch pine; top and middle back rails, soft maple; turned feet, beech; applied strips on drawer fronts and stiles, walnut; applied moldings, cedar, either Atlantic white cedar or nothern white cedar; replaced half-round moldings on drawer dividers, yellow poplar

Dimensions

36.6 x 38.7 x 20.2 in. (93 x 98.4 x 51.4 cm)

Form

Case Piece

Origin

Massachusetts

Museum

Yale University Art Gallery

Accession

1930.2391

Credit line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection