From: Ott Joseph, "Some Rhode Island Furniture," The Magazine Antiques 107, no. 5 (May, 1975): 942, pl. 1.
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Chest-on-chest |
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Object numberRIF1091 |
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MakerMaker, attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33?1809 |
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Dimensions83 × 42 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (210.82 × 107.95 × 52.07 cm) |
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Date176585 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); chestnut (secondary) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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StyleChippendale |
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ProvenanceMoses Brown (17381836), Providence, Rhode Island. Anna Babbitt, Wickford, Rhode Island, by 1926. Joseph K. Ott (19291994), Providence, by 1975 |
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Associated namesMoses BrownAnna Babbitt Joseph K. Ott |
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BibliographyLuke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 1, pp. 115117, fig. 115.Joseph K. Ott, "Some Rhode Island Furniture," Antiques 107, no. 5 (May 1975): 942, pl. I, ill. Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 75, 167, fig. 2.4, 3.91. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 58n20. |