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Dining table

Object number

RIF3494

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Closed: 28 × 19 × 48 in. (71.12 × 48.26 × 121.92 cm) Width, open: 62 1/2 in. (158.75 cm)

Date

1760–80

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Philadelphia, formerly said to have been made in Philadelphia or Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Major General John Adams Dix (1798–1879), New York. Sotheby's, New York, January 18–19, 2001, lot 812

Associated names

Major General John Adams Dix
Sotheby's

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana Including Silver, Prints, Folk Art, Furniture, and Property Formerly in the Estate of Ulysses S. Grant, sale cat. (January 18–19, 2001), 314, lot 812, ill.