Photo: Courtesy Diplomatic Reception Rooms, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C., 87.14
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Pembroke table |
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Object numberRIF669 |
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MakerMaker, attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/331809 |
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Dimensionsclosed: 27 × 20 × 33 1/4 in. (68.58 × 50.8 × 84.46 cm) Width open: 36 1/4 in. (92.08 cm) |
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Date17801800 |
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Current locationDiplomatic Reception Rooms, Department of State |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); soft maple, chestnut, and eastern white pine (secondary) |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceC. W. Lyon, Inc., Millbrook, New York, by 1968; sold to the Dietrich Americana Foundation, Philadelphia,1968; sold to the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1987 |
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Associated namesDietrich American FoundationC. W. Lyon, Inc. |
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BibliographyClement E. Conger, Alexandra W. Rollins, and Mary Itsell, Treasures of State: Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the U.S. Department of State (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991), 186187, no. 97, ill.Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 158, fig. 3.80. "Charles Woolsey Lyon advertisement," Antiques 94, no. 4 (October 1968): 447, ill. |