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From: Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, & Jack O'Brien, Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Masachusetts 1710–1850 (Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2009), 122, plate 36.2
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Dining table

Object number

RIF566

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 29 3/8 in. (74.613 cm) Width, closed: 19 1/4 in. (48.895 cm) Width, open: 54 1/8 in. (137.478 cm) Depth: 59 3/8 in. (150.813 cm)

Date

1750–80

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); maple (hinged and stationary rails)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

By descent in a Westport, Massachusetts, family. Private collection

Associated names

Westport family

Bibliography

Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien, Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710–1850 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009), 122, pl. 36.2.