Photo: Courtesy Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salem, N.C.
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Tilt-top table |
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Object numberRIF2097 |
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MakerMaker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 17231785Maker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 27 1/2 in. (69.85 cm) Diameter, top: 33 5/8 in. (85.41 cm) |
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Date174080 |
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Current locationPrivate Collection |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); yellow poplar (block) |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceCaptain Thomas Wright, Wilmington, North Carolina; by descent to Judge Joshua Grainger Wright, Wilmington, North Carolina, before 1992; Estate Antiques, Charleston, South Carolina, 1992 |
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Associated namesThomas WrightJudge Joshua Grainger Wright Estate Antiques |
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Bibliography"Jim and Harriet Pratt Estate Antiques advertisement," Antiques 142, no. 1 (July 1992): 41, ill.Patricia E. Kane, "The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables," American Furniture (1999): 5. Sarah Neale Fayen, "Tilt-Top Tables and Eighteenth-Century Consumerism," American Furniture (2003): 121, fig. 37. John Bivins, "A Catalog of Northern Furniture with Southern Provenances," Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (November 1989): 61, fig. 16. John Bivins, Wilmington Furniture 17201860, exh. cat. (Wilmington, North Carolina: St. John's Museum of Art, 1989), 35, plate 8. |