Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York
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Tea table |
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Object numberRIF2364 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 26 1/4 × 31 1/2 × 21 3/4 in. (66.68 × 80.01 × 55.25 cm) |
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Date174080 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); white pine (corner blocks) |
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MarksNone |
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Inscriptions"Southwick," in chalk, on underside of top |
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Provenance? Southwick, location and dates unknown. John Walton, Inc., Griswold and Jewett City, Connecticut. Jess Pavey, Birmingham, Michigan; sold to Adolph Henry Meyer, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, January 20, 1996, lot 115; sold to C. L. Prickett Antiques, Yardley, Pennslyvania; sold to Bruce Westcott, New York, 1998; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, January 2021, 2017, lot 4258 |
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Associated namesJess S. PaveyAdolph Henry Meyer Sotheby's C. L. Prickett, Inc. John S. Walton, Inc. ? Southwick Bruce Westcott |
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BibliographyJoan Barzilay Freund, Masterpieces of Americana: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Henry Meyer (New York: Sotheby's Books, 1995), 34.Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Henry Meyer, sale cat. (January 20, 1996), lot 115. Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana Including Property from the Collection of Joan Oestreich Kend, sale cat. (January 2021, 2017), lot 4258, ill. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 213n4. |