Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Liza and Michael Moses Photographic Archive, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. Click the image to enlarge	Stand
	Object number RIF994
	Maker Maker Unknown Maker, formerly attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33?1809
	Dimensions 28 1/2 � 23 1/2 � 16 1/4 in. (72.39 � 59.69 � 41.275 cm)
	Date 1760–80
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Probably made in Boston, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Dr. David Townsend (1753–1829), Boston; by descent to Lillian Townsend Wade. Mary Elizabeth Dolan Taradash (1903–1981) and Mitchell M. Taradash (1889–1973), Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York, by 1953. Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1974
	Associated names Dr. David Townsend Lillian Townsend Wade Mitchell M. Taradash Mary Elizabeth Dolan Taradash Israel Sack, Inc.
	See also RIF1439
	Bibliography Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "The Newport Exhibition," Antiques 64, no. 1 (July 1953): 40, fig. 7. Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640–1820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 81, no. 53, ill. American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 4, p. 1084, no. P3969, ill. Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 50, fig. 1.37.

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