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Dining table

Object number

RIF3020

Maker

Maker, possibly by John Townsend, American, 1732/33?1809

Dimensions

Height: 27 1/4 × 49 × 60 in. (69.22 × 124.46 × 152.4 cm) Length: 48 1/2 in. (123.19 cm) Width, extended: 49 in. (124.46 cm)

Date

1740–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); maple (secondary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Queen Anne

Provenance

Ginsbury and Levy, Inc., New York, before 1981. Dr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Phillips, New York; consigned by their estate to Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, September 26, 1981, lot 427. Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York, 2020

Associated names

Ginsburg and Levy, Inc.
Mrs. Samuel J. Phillips
Dr. Samuel J. Phillips
Sotheby's

Bibliography

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Fine Americana, sale cat. (September 26, 1981), lot 427, ill.