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Card table, one of a pair |
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Object numberRIF1361 |
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MakerMaker, attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33?1809 |
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DimensionsClosed: 28 3/4 × 35 × 17 1/2 in. (73.03 × 88.9 × 44.45 cm) |
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Date1796 |
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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 and light and dark wood inlay (primary); white pine (front rail); soft maple (rear rail) |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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StyleHepplewhite, Federal |
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ProvenanceKing family, Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to Gwendolen Ella Rivers (née Armstrong 19111972), Newport, Rhode Island; bequeathed to the Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island, 1972 |
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Associated namesKing familyGwendolen Ella Rives |
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NotesThis table is the mate to the labeled table at Winterthur Museum, Delaware (RIF698). |
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See also |
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BibliographyMorrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), 19495, no. 42.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), 409n1. |