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High-post bed

Object number

RIF1489

Maker

Maker Unknown
Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723?1785

Dimensions

93 1/2 × 60 × 78 in. (237.491 × 152.4 × 198.12 cm)

Date

1800–1820

Current location

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

Geography

Probably made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1957; sold to The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

Associated names

Israel Sack, Inc.

See also

Bibliography

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 1, p. 5, no. 14, ill.
"The Buildings: The Peyton Randolph House," Antiques 95, no. 1 (January 1969): 96–97, ill.
Barry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1974), 22–23, no. 11, ill.