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Tilt-top table |
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Object numberRIF667 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 28 in. (71.12 cm) Diameter: 32 in. (81.28 cm) |
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Date175580 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); maple (secondary) |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceBy descent in the Bowen-Clark-Kane families, before 1965; Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., New York, 1965. Doris and Richard M. Seidlitz, Pound Ridge, New York, by 1988; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, January 30, 1988, lot 1777 (withdrawn) |
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Associated namesBowen-Clarke-KaneGinsburg and Levy, Inc. Doris Seidlitz Sotheby's Richard M. Seidlitz |
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NotesThe table was withdrawn from the Sotheby's sale (New York, January 30, 1988, lot 1777) because its age was questioned. |
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See also |
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BibliographyJoseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 3839, 163 (detail), no. 33, fig. 33.Patricia E. Kane, "The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables," American Furniture (1999): 1213, fig. 15. "Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 87, no. 5 (May 1965): 511, ill. Felice Davis, "The American Connoisseur: A 'Young' Collector and American Antiques," Connoisseur 179, no. 721 (March 1972): 199, fig. 11. Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture: The Collection of Doris and Richard M. Seidlitz, sale cat. (January 30, 1988), lot 1777 (withdrawn), ill. "Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 157, no. 1 (January 2000): 1, ill. |