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Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1961.0950
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Box

Object number

RIF733

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

11 × 20 × 12 1/8 in. (27.94 × 50.8 × 30.798 cm)

Date

1795–1805

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Possibly made in Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany and satinwood veneers on yellow poplar; white cedar (backs and bottom)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur, Delaware; given to Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1961

Associated names

Henry Francis du Pont

Bibliography

Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period, 1788–1825 (New York: Viking Press, 1966), 433, no. 439, Accession no. 61.950, ill.