From: Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "Newport, A Center of Colonial Cabinetmaking,"
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Marble slab table |
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Object numberRIF752 |
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MakerMaker, attributed to John Goddard, American, 17231785 |
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Dimensions28 1/2 × 45 × 21 1/2 in. (72.39 × 114.3 × 54.61 cm) |
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Date175560 |
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Current locationPreservation Society of Newport County |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); marble (top) |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceMr. Louis E. Brooks (1880unknown) and Mrs. Louis E. Brooks, Marshall, Michigan, 1953; sold to John S. Walton, New York, 1954; sold to The Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island, by 1954 |
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Associated namesMrs. Louis E. BrooksLouis E. Brooks John S. Walton, Inc. |
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BibliographyRalph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 16401820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 100, 210, no. 72, ill.Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "The Newport Exhibition," Antiques 64, no. 1 (July 1953): 41, fig. 11. "John S. Walton Antiques, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 64, no. 1 (July 1953): 6, ill. Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "Newport, A Center of Colonial Cabinetmaking," Antiques 147, no. 4 (April 1995): 552, 554, pl. 8. Philip Zea, "The Serpentine Furniture of Colonial Newport," American Furniture (1999): 264265, fig. 1719. Wendy A. Cooper, In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 16501830, Fifty Years of Discovery since the 1929 Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), 141142, fig. 159. Christie's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Ott, sale cat. (January 20, 2012), 26, 28, 30, fig. 2. Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 273, ill. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 227n6. Christie's, New York, Highly Important American Furniture Deaccessioned from Stratford Hall Plantation, sale cat. (December 4, 2003), 30, fig. 1. |