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High-post bed |
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Object numberRIF985 |
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MakerMaker, attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/331809 |
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Dimensions85 1/2 × 57 3/4 × 76 1/2 in. (217.17 × 146.685 × 194.31 cm) |
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Date176585 |
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Current locationNewport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany |
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ProvenanceProbably John Townsend (17321809), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter Mrs. Thomas Brinley (née Mary Townsend, 17691856), Newport, Rhode Island, 1809; by descent to her nephew and heir, Christopher Townsend (died 1881), Newport, Rhode Island, 1856; by descent to his sister, Ellen F. Townsend (18801887), Newport, Rhode Island, 1881; bequeathed by her to her friend, William P. Sheffield (18191907), Newport, Rhode Island, 1886; by descent to his son, William P. Sheffield (18571919); by descent to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Clark Burdick (née Elizabeth E. Peckham, died 1947) Middleton, Rhode Island, until 1937. Lilian S. Leonard; Israel Sack, Inc., New York; sold to Cornelius Moore (18851970), Newport, Rhode Island; consigned by his estate to Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, October 30, 1971, lot 148; sold to Doris Duke (19121993) for Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, 1971; Whitehorne House Museum, Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, from 1974 |
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Associated namesJohn TownsendMary Townsend Brinley Christopher Townsend Ellen F. Townsend William P. Sheffield Israel Sack, Inc. Mrs. Clark Burdick William P. Sheffield Lilian S. Leonard Doris Duke Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Cornelius C. Moore |
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BibliographyMichael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 147, 189, fig. 3.107.Morrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), 103, no. 15, ill. Homer Eaton Keyes, "Two Branches of the Newport Townsends," Antiques 31, no. 6 (June 1937): 308309, fig. 1. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, Important American Furniture: Property from the Estate of the Late Cornelius C. Moore, sale cat. (October 30, 1971), 55, lot 148, ill. |