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Dressing table

Object number

RIF3112

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 30 1/2 in. (77.47 cm) Width of case: 30 1/2 in. (77.47 cm) Width of top: 37 3/4 in. (95.885 cm) Depth: 23 1/2 in. (59.69 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Possibly made in South Kingstown, Rhode Island
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Medium

Cherry

Provenance

Brigadier General Isaac Peace Rodman (1822–1862), South Kingstown, Rhode Island; by descent in the Rodman family. Sotheby's, New York, June 17–18, 1997, lot 647

Associated names

Brigadier General Isaac Peace Rodman
Sotheby's
Rodman Family

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (June 17–18, 1997), lot 647, ill.
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 233n4.