Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., American Furniture Including Labeled, Pedigreed and Historic Examples From the Collection of Benjamin Flayderman, Boston, sale cat. (April 17–18, 1931) 90, lot 275 Click the image to enlarge	Serving table
	Object number RIF1577
	Maker Maker, formerly attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33–1809 Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 29 � 35 1/2 in. (73.66 � 90.17 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance Colonel Nightingale Green (active 1776), Rhode Island. John Wanamaker and Company, New York, 1930. Benjamin Flayderman (1896–1975), Boston, Massachusetts, 1931; consigned to American Art Association Anderson Galleries, New York, April 17–18, 1931, lot 275
	Associated names Colonel Nightingale Green John Wanamaker and Company Benjamin Flayderman American Art Association Anderson Galleries
	See also RIF1668 RIF1669
	Bibliography Anderson Galleries and American Art Association, New York, American Furniture Including Labeled, Pedigreed and Historic Examples from the Collection of Benjamin Flayderman, Boston, sale cat. (April 17–18, 1931), 90, lot 275, ill. Bondome, "Shop Talk," Antiques 18, no. 6 (December 1930): 516, ill.

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