Photo: Courtesy The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Bayou Bend Collection, Gift of Miss Ima Hogg
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Marble slab table |
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Object numberRIF901 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions32 3/8 × 45 1/4 × 22 1/2 in. (82.233 × 114.935 × 57.15 cm) |
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Date17851820 |
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Current locationMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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GeographyProbably made in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); hard maple (stretchers); birch (rear rail); eastern white pine (corner blocks) (by microanalysis) |
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MarksNone |
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Inscriptions"IP" over "16," in paint, underside of marble top |
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StyleRococo, Neoclassical, Federal |
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ProvenancePossibly made for Nathan Bowen (17291814), Providence, Rhode Island, or for his son, Nathan Bowen II (died 1848), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, William Bradford Bowen (born 1808), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, Amos Miller Bowen (18381907), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, William Manuel Perez Bowen (born 1864), Providence, Rhode Island. Harry Arons, Ansonia, Connecticut, by 1955; sold to Ima Hogg (18821975), Houston, Texas, 1955; given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1969 |
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Associated namesHarry AronsNathan Bowen Nathan Bowen II William Bradford Bowen Amos Miller Bowen William Manuel Perez Bowen Ima Hogg |
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ConstructionThe triangular blocks in front are fills set in between the block and front rail. The rear blocks are replaced. The lapped cross stretchers may be later additions to strengthen the frame or replacements of original stretchers. Source: Warren, David B., Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paitnings in the Bayou Bend Collection (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, in association with Princeton University Press, 1998): 109, no. F176. |
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BibliographyHelen Comstock, American Furniture: Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles (New York: Viking Press, 1962), fig. 386.David B. Warren, Bayou Bend: American Furniture, Paintings, and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1975), 59, fig. 112. David B. Warren et al., American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1998), 109, no. F176, ill. |