Object details
Accession number
F29w3
Primary Creator
Savell Shop
(active Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640 - 1727)
Full title
Chest
Creation Date
1660-1690
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date, possibly by descent through the Gardner or Stewart families.
Dimensions
86 x 142 x 56 cm (33 7/8 x 55 7/8 x 22 1/16 in.)
Display Media
Oak, pine, and chestnut
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Third Floor Passage
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 260. (as American, dated about 1650-1700)
William Germain Dooley. "Collection of Old Chests at Gardner Museum." Boston Evening Transcript (7 May 1932).
Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 4. (as American, Connecticut; as probably inherited from Isabella Tod Stewart (1778-1848))
Richard H. Randall. American Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1965), p. 6, no. 6 (as American, Connecticut)
Peter Follansbee and John D. Alexander. "Seventeenth-Century Joinery from Braintree, Massachusetts: The Savell Shop Tradition" in Luke Beckerdite (ed.). American Furniture 1996 (American Furniture Annual). Chipstone Foundation, accessed 4 April 2016. http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/222/American-Furniture-1996/Seventeenth-Century-Joinery-from-Braintree,-Massachusetts:-The-Savell-Shop-Tradition. (as the Savell shop, Braintree, Massachusetts)
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