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Dressing table |
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Object numberRIF691 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions32 1/4 × 36 × 21 1/2 in. (81.915 × 91.44 × 54.61 cm) |
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Date174060 |
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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): yellow poplar (drawer linings and blocks on legs); pine (drawer supports and backing for muntins and dividers) |
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MarksNone |
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Inscriptions"1," "2," "3," and "4," in chalk, on interior face of drawer backs starting at top and then left to right; indicipherable chalk marks at interior front corners of some drawers; "W," in graphite, on both outer faces of sides of proper left lower drawer; "V," [inverted for up] in chalk, on interior of back board; "O[?]," in chalk, on interior of proper left side |
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StyleQueen Anne |
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ProvenanceIsrael Sack, Inc., New York, 1986. G. K. S. Bush, Inc., Washington, D. C., 1994. Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, New Hampshire (sale held Manchester), March 3, 2002, lot 805. Christie's, New York, January 1819, 2007, lot 559 |
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Associated namesIsrael Sack, Inc.G. K. S. Bush, Inc. Northeast Auctions Christie's |
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BibliographyAmerican Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 19571989), vol. 8, p. 2335, no. P5885, ill.Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 211, Superior, ill. "G. K. S. Bush, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 145, no. 3 (March 1994): 324, ill. Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, N.H., New Hampshire Weekend Auction, sale cat. (March 3, 2002), 52, lot 805, ill. Christie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints, and Decoys, sale cat. (January 1819, 2007), 273, lot 559, ill. |