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Card table

Object number

RIF1484

Maker

Maker Unknown
Maker, formerly attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33?1809

Dimensions

Closed: 29 × 37 1/4 × 19 3/4 in. (73.66 × 94.62 × 50.17 cm)

Date

1780–90

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1960 and 1980

Associated names

Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 1, p. 118, no. 335, ill.; vol. 7, p. 1788, P369, ill.