Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Wendy Cooper, "The Purchase of Furniture and Furnishings by John Brown, Providence Merchant," Antiques 103 (February 1973): 333, fig. 10 Click the image to enlarge	Card table
	Object number RIF1302
	Maker Maker, possibly by John Townsend, American, 1732/33?1809
	Dimensions Closed: 28 1/2 � 29 1/2 � 14 5/8 in. (72.39 � 74.93 � 37.15 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); soft maple (hinged rail); chestnut (glue blocks)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance John Brown (1736–1803), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent in his family to Norman Herreshoff (1903–1990), Bristol, Rhode Island, 1973
	Associated names John Brown Norman Herreshoff
	Bibliography Wendy A. Cooper, "The Purchase of Furniture and Furnishings by John Brown, Providence Merchant, Part 1: 1760–1788," Antiques 103, no. 2 (February 1973): 333, fig. 10. Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien, Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710–1850 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009), 134, pl. 41.1.

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