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Dining table

Object number

RIF1684

Maker

Maker, possibly by John Goddard, American, 1723–1785

Dimensions

Closed: 28 1/4 × 18 1/4 × 61 in. (71.76 × 46.36 × 154.94 cm) Width, open: 55 1/4 in. (140.34 cm)

Date

1750–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1977

Associated names

Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 6, p. 1471, P4475, ill.
Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 227, fig. 5.15.