Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1962.0113
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Card table |
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Object numberRIF707 |
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MakerMaker Joseph Rawson, Sr., 1760?1835 |
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DimensionsClosed: 28 3/8 × 35 3/4 × 17 3/4 in. (72.07 × 90.81 × 45.09 cm) |
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Date17901810 |
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Current location |
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GeographyMade in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); mahogany veneer; light wood inlay; white pine (front and rear rails); maple (hinged rail) |
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Marks"MADE / BY / Joseph Rawson, /PROVIDENCE.," printed on paper label glued to table |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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StyleHepplewhite, Federal |
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ProvenanceMrs. Ruth L. Howard, before 1962; sold to Henry F. du Pont (18901969), Winterthur, Delaware, by 1962; given to the Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1962 |
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Associated namesMrs. Ruth L. Howard |
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See also |
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BibliographyCharles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period, 17881825 (New York: Viking Press, 1966), 327328, no. 296, ill.Eleanore Bradford Monahon, "The Rawson Family of Cabinetmakers in Providence, Rhode Island," Antiques 118, no. 1 (July 1980): 136, fig. 56. Benjamin Attmore Hewitt, Patricia E. Kane, and Gerald W. R. Ward, The Work of Many Hands: Card Tables in Federal America, 17901820, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), 148149, no. 30, ill. William C. Ketchum Jr., American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940 (New York: Crown Publishers, 1995), 274. |