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Card table |
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Object numberRIF2745 |
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MakerMaker UnknownMaker, possibly by Holmes Weaver, American, 1769?1848, active 1796?1848 |
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DimensionsClosed: 28 1/2 × 34 1/2 × 17 in. (72.39 × 87.63 × 43.18 cm) Diameter, top: 34 in. (86.36 cm) |
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Date17901810 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany with lightwood inlay |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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StyleHepplewhite, Federal |
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ProvenanceBenjamin Attmore Hewitt (19212006), New Haven, Connecticut, by 1982. Kenneth Hammitt Antiques, Woodbury, Connecticut, 1983. Andrew D. Wolfe (19221999), Pittsford, New York; consigned by his estate to Sotheby's, New York, January 20, 2001, lot 129 |
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Associated namesBenjamin Attmore HewittKenneth Hammitt Antiques Andrew D. Wolfe Sotheby's |
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BibliographyBenjamin Attmore Hewitt, Patricia E. Kane, and Gerald W. R. Ward, The Work of Many Hands: Card Tables in Federal America, 17901820, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), 146, 181."Kenneth Hammitt Antiques advertisement," Antiques 123, no. 3 (March 1983): 473, ill. Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture and Folk Art from the Estate of Andrew D. Wolfe, sale cat. (January 20, 2001), 62, lot 129, 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), 402n3. |