Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Pembroke table
	Object number RIF410
	Maker Maker attributed John Townsend, American, 1732–1809
	Dimensions Closed: 69.22 x 48.26 x 86.36 cm (27 1/4 x 19 x 34 in.)
	Date 1785–1800
	Current location Private collection
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); white pine, chestnut, yellow poplar, and maple (secondary)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Mrs. Elizabeth D. Church, Bristol, Rhode Island, by 1936; sold to Mr. Lammot du Pont Copeland (1905–1983) and Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland (n�e Pamela Cunningham, 1906–2001), Greenville, Delaware, 1936; consigned by their estate to Sotheby's, New York, January 19, 2002, lot 56; sold to a private collection
	Associated names Elizabeth Diamond Church Lammot du Pont Copeland Sotheby's
	See also RIF224 RIF411 RIF588 RIF654 RIF748 RIF1396 RIF1400 RIF1401 RIF2625 RIF2853 RIF4201 RIF4228
	Bibliography Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640–1820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 84, no. 56, ill. Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland, sale cat. (January 19, 2002), 52–55, lot 56, ill. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 379n12.

Pembroke table