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From: Joseph Downs, "The Furniture of Goddard and Townsend," Antiques 52 (December 1947): 429
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Bureau table

Object number

RIF1793

Maker

Maker, attributed to Edmund Townsend, American, 1736/7–1811

Date

1760–80

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Mrs. J. Insley Blair (née Natalie Knowlton, 1884-1951), Tuxedo Park, New York, by 1947

Associated names

Natalie Knowlton Blair

Bibliography

Joseph Downs, "The Furniture of Goddard and Townsend," Antiques 52, no. 6 (December 1947): 429, fig. 15.