Photo: Courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago, Jessie Spalding Landon Fund, 1957.115
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Dining table |
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Object numberRIF914 |
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MakerMaker, attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33?1809 |
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DimensionsOpen: 30 × 61 × 55 in. (76.2 × 154.94 × 139.7 cm) |
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Date175565 |
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Current locationThe Art Institute of Chicago |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); soft maple (one hinged rail); hard maple (one batten); birch (one hinged rail); beech (stationary rails, center upper batten, and one outside upper batten) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsA, in graphite, on exterior of stationary section of one hinged rail; B, on exterior of stationary rail [same side] behind mobile section of hinged rail; C, in graphite, on exterior of mobile section of hinged rail [same side]; A, on exterior of other stationary rail behind mobile section of hinged rail; illegible letter [possibly D], in graphite, on exterior of mobile section of other hinged rail |
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StyleChippendale |
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ProvenanceJohn S. Walton, New York; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1957 |
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Associated namesJohn S. Walton |
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BibliographyMeyric R. Rogers, "American Decorative Arts in the Art Institute of Chicago," Antiques 74, no. 1 (July 1958): 53.John W. Keefe, The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 140, no. 164. Liza Moses and Michael Moses, "Authenticating John Townsend's and John Goddard's Queen Anne and Chippendale Tables," Antiques 121, no. 5 (May 1982): 1134, fig. 11. |