Photo: Courtesy Preservation Society of Newport County, R.I., 1667; photo by Rhode Island Furniture Archive
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Pembroke table |
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Object numberRIF1139 |
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MakerMaker Robert Lawton, Jr., 1772?1853 |
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Dimensions27 × 18 × 30 3/4 in. (68.58 × 45.72 × 78.105 cm) 27 × 35 × 30 3/4 in. (68.58 × 88.9 × 78.105 cm) |
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Date1798 |
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Current locationPreservation Society of Newport County |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); maple and pine (secondary) |
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Marks"Robert Lawton, / Junior, / CABINET-MAKER, carries on said / Business, in its various Branches, in / Spring Street [script in ink] Also has on Hand, the / new-invented Spring, Crimping, Press and / Crimping Boards with several Kinds of / portable Writing Desks. No. 33 [script, o superscript with pellet below] / Newport. 4 [4 script in ink] of 10 [10 script in ink] Mon. 1798 [1798 script in ink]," printed and written in ink, on a paper label glued to one hinged rail |
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Inscriptions"Mrs. Mary B. Safford," in graphite, on small paper label |
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StyleHepplewhite, Federal |
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ProvenancePossibly Mrs. Mary B. Safford. Mr. Ralph E. Carpenter (19092009) and Mrs. Ralph E. (Cynthia R.) Carpenter, Scarsdale, New York, before 1953; given to the Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island, 1953 |
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Associated namesMrs. Mary B. SaffordRalph E. Carpenter, Jr. Cynthia R. Carpenter |
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BibliographyRalph E. Carpenter, Jr., "The Newport Exhibition," Antiques 64, no. 1 (July 1953): 41, fig. 13.Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 16401820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 86, no. 58, ill. |