Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Newport Restoration Foundation, R.I., 2001.5 Click the image to enlarge	High-post bed
	Object number RIF985
	Maker Maker, attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33–1809
	Dimensions 85 1/2 � 57 3/4 � 76 1/2 in. (217.17 � 146.685 � 194.31 cm)
	Date 1765–85
	Current location Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Provenance Probably John Townsend (1732–1809), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter Mrs. Thomas Brinley (n�e Mary Townsend, 1769–1856), 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 (1880–1887), Newport, Rhode Island, 1881; bequeathed by her to her friend, William P. Sheffield (1819–1907), Newport, Rhode Island, 1886; by descent to his son, William P. Sheffield (1857–1919); by descent to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Clark Burdick (n�e Elizabeth E. Peckham, died 1947) Middleton, Rhode Island, until 1937. Lilian S. Leonard; Israel Sack, Inc., New York; sold to Cornelius Moore (1885–1970), Newport, Rhode Island; consigned by his estate to Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, October 30, 1971, lot 148; sold to Doris Duke (1912–1993) for Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, 1971; Whitehorne House Museum, Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, from 1974
	Associated names John Townsend Mary 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
	Bibliography Michael 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): 308–309, 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.