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Dining table

Object number

RIF1316

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Open: 27 1/2 × 33 × 32 1/2 in. (69.85 × 83.82 × 82.55 cm)

Date

1760–90

Current location

Historic Deerfield, Inc.

Geography

Made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); yellow poplar (drawer linings); pine (other secondary)

Marks

None

Inscriptions

"Cabot," in chalk, on underside

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Rowena Russell Potter, Greenfield, Massachusetts; given to Historic Deerfield, Inc., Massachusetts, before 1976

Associated names

Rowena Russell Potter

Bibliography

Dean A. Fales, Jr., The Furniture of Historic Deerfield (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1976), 122, fig. 253.