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Tea table

Object number

RIF859

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

26 × 30 7/8 × 18 3/4 in. (66.04 × 78.423 × 47.625 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

The Art Institute of Chicago

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Queen Anne

Provenance

Mrs. Robert Cushman, Boston, Massachusetts, before 1981; Israel Sack, Inc., New York, by 1981; sold toThe Art Insitute of Chicago, 1981

Associated names

Israel Sack, Inc.
Mrs. Robert Cushman

See also

Bibliography

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 7, p. 1838, no. P5109.
Albert Sack, "Regionalism in Early American Tea Tables," Antiques 131, no. 1 (January 1987): 256, fig. 6.