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Dining table

Object number

RIF1735

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Closed: 27 3/4 × 18 × 61 in. (70.49 × 45.72 × 154.94 cm) Width, open: 60 in. (152.4 cm)

Date

1750–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

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

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1985

Associated names

Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–89), vol. 8, p. 2155, P5610, ill.
Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien, Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710–1850 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009), 410, entry 36n1.
John T. Kirk, American Furniture: Understanding Styles, Construction, and Quality (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000), 152–153, fig. 187.