Photo: Courtesy Newport Restoration Foundation, R.I., 1999.396
Click the image to enlarge
|
Card table |
|
Object numberRIF2500 |
||
MakerMaker, formerly attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/331809Maker Unknown |
||
DimensionsHeight: 28 1/4 in. (71.755 cm) Width: 33 3/4 in. (85.725 cm) |
||
Date17801800 |
||
Current locationNewport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island |
||
GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
||
MediumMahogany |
||
MarksUnknown |
||
InscriptionsUnknown |
||
ProvenanceGinsburg and Levy, Inc., New York; sold to Lincoln Isham (18921971), Dorset, Vermont; consigned by his estate to Sotheby Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, May 1920, 1972, lot 106; sold to Doris Duke (19121993) for Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, 1972; Whitehorne House Museum, Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, from 1974 |
||
Associated namesLincoln IshamSotheby Parke Bernet Ginsburg and Levy, Inc. Doris Duke |
||
NotesA number of card tables attributed to Rhode Island have facades with serpentine curves in plan and section, beading or gadrooning along the lower edge of the facade, blocked corners, stop-fluted legs, pierced corner brackets, and gouge decoration on the top leaf edge. See the related examples below. Closely related tables have straight legs; see, for example, RIF56. Other similar tables lacking some of the features shared by these two groups are recorded in the database as well. |
||
See also |
||
BibliographySotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Important American Furniture, sale cat. (May 1920, 1972), 19, lot 106, ill.Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien, Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 17101850 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009), 411, entry 41n2. |