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From: Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture (Providence, R.I.: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 35, cat. no. 31
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Tea table

Object number

RIF933

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

28 1/2 × 28 3/4 × 18 3/4 in. (72.39 × 73.025 × 47.625 cm)

Date

1740–80

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); pine (secondary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

By descent in the Gardiner family, Newport, Rhode Island. Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1960. Mr. and Mrs. de B. K. Seeley, 1965

Associated names

Gardiner family
Mr. and Mrs. deB. K. Seeley
Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 34–35, no. 31, ill.
"Israel Sack, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 78, no. 5 (November 1960): inside cover, ill.
American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–89), vol. 1, p. 105, no. 306, ill.