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Dining table

Object number

RIF3279

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 27 × 46 1/4 × 42 in. (68.58 × 117.48 × 106.68 cm) Width, extended: 46 1/4 in. (117.475 cm) Length: 42 in. (106.68 cm)

Date

1750–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

By descent in the Wesson and Deblois families, until 1992; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, October 25, 1992, lot 321

Associated names

Wesson family
Deblois family
Sotheby's

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, and Folk Paintings, sale cat. (October 25, 1992), lot 321, ill.