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Sideboard

Object number

RIF2156

Maker

Maker Unknown
Maker, possibly by Holmes Weaver, American, 1769?1848, active 1796?1848

Dimensions

40 × 27 × 60 in. (101.6 × 68.58 × 152.4 cm)

Date

1785–1805

Current location

Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary)

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

By descent in the Van Ingram family. Joseph Sprain American Antiques, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1973; sold to Doris Duke (1912–1993) for Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, 1973; Whitehorne House Museum, Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, from 1974

Associated names

Van Ingram Family
Joseph Sprain
Doris Duke

Bibliography

"Joseph Sprain advertisement," Antiques 104, no. 2 (August 1973): 181.