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From: American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 8 (Alexandria, Va.: Highland House Publishers, 1986): 2161, P5615
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Miniature tea table

Object number

RIF1736

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

8 1/4 × 9 × 13 1/8 in. (20.955 × 22.86 × 33.338 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Walnut (primary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

By descent in the Brown and Ives families, Providence, Rhode Island. Robert L. Gill, before 1985. Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1985; sold to June Hennage (1927–2020) and Joseph Howard Hennage (1921–2010), Chevy Chase, Maryland, and later Williamsburg, Virginia; by bequest to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

Associated names

Brown and Ives families
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Gill
Israel Sack, Inc.
Joseph Howard Hennage
June Elizabeth Stedman Hennage

See also

Bibliography

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 8, p. 2161, P5615, ill.