Photo: Courtesy The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wis., 1954.3
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Object numberRIF990 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 22 in. (55.88 cm) Diameter at top: 11 7/8 in. (30.163 cm) |
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Date176080 |
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Current locationThe Chipstone Foundation |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); pine (secondary) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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ProvenanceDokray family, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. John S. Walton, Inc., New York; sold to Polly Mariner Stone (18981995) and Stanley Stone (18961987), Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1954; bequeathed to The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1987 |
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Associated namesDokray familyJohn S. Walton, Inc. Polly Mariner Stone Stanley Stone |
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ConstructionThe dished top is lathe turned. The top of the pillar is fitted into a rectangular pine block, which is screwed to the top. The legs are fitted into the base of the pillar in dovetail fashion; an iron three-arm brace is screwed to the underside of each leg and to the pillar base. Source: Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 336. |
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BibliographyOswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 336337, no. 158, ill.Stanley Stone, "Rhode Island Furniture at Chipstone, Part II," Antiques 91, no. 4 (April 1967): 513, ill. |