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Dressing table

Object number

RIF824

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

31 1/4 × 35 × 19 3/4 in. (79.375 × 88.9 × 50.165 cm)

Date

1790–1810

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany, satinwood (primary); yellow poplar (secondary)

Provenance

Captain Joseph Allen, Newport, Rhode Island; by descent in his family, before 1972; Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1972

Associated names

Captain Joseph Allen
Descendants of Joseph Allen
Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 4, p. 930, P3652, ill.
"Israel Sack, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 104, no. 1 (July 1973): inside cover, ill.
John T. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 373, fig. 1499.