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Card table

Object number

RIF698

Maker

Maker John Townsend, American, 1732/33?1809

Dimensions

Closed: 28 1/4 × 36 × 17 3/4 in. (71.76 × 91.44 × 45.09 cm)

Date

1796

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); white pine (front rail); soft maple (rear rail); light and dark wood inlay

Marks

"Made By / Jo... Townsend, Newport, " printed and "1796," in ink, on paper label glued to rear rail between hinged rails

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

By descent in the King family, Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to Mrs. Alexander Nelidow (née Dorothy Gordon King). C. W. Lyon, Inc., New York; sold to Colonel Guy W. Walker, Jr. (1897–1978); sold to Henry F. du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur, Delaware; given to the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware, 1958

Associated names

King family
Dorothy Gordon King
C. W. Lyon, Inc.
Colonel Guy Warren Walker, Jr.

Notes

The matching table of the pair, RIF1361, is owned by the Preservation Society of Newport County. It was given to the Preservation Society in 1972 as part of the contents of Kinscote, a mid-nineteenth-century family house in Newport.

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Bibliography

"The Editor's Attic," Antiques 60, no. 4 (October 1951): 320, ill.
Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "The Newport Exhibition," Antiques 64, no. 1 (July 1953): 41, fig. 14.
Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640–1820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 96, no. 68, ill.
Helena Hayward, ed., World Furniture: An Illustrated History (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965), 196, fig. 730.
Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period, 1788–1825 (New York: Viking Press, 1966), 34, 324, no. 288, fig. 95.
Michael Moses and Liza Moses, "Authenticating John Townsend's Later Tables," Antiques 119, no. 5 (May 1981): 1157, fig. 8–8a.
Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 110, 112, fig. 3.22–3.22a, 3.26.
Christie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (October 5, 2000), 112, ill.
Morrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), 60, 168–70, 194–95, no. 42, fig. 67.
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), 409nn1–2.