Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Morrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend, Newport Cabinetmaker (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), 87, no. 6 Click the image to enlarge	Card table
	Object number RIF4032
	Maker Maker, attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732?1809
	Dimensions Closed: 26 7/8 � 34 1/4 � 16 1/2 in. (68.26 � 87 � 41.91 cm)
	Date 1760–70
	Current location Private collection
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); maple and white pine (secondary)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Private collection, Romulus, New York, by about 1950; consigned to Hessney's Auction Company, Geneva, New York, December 13, 2000; sold to Samuel Cottone, Mount. Morris, New York; sold to G. K. S. Bush, Inc., Washington, D. C., 2000; sold to a private collection, Alexandria, Virginia
	Associated names Hessney's Auction Company Samuel Cottone G. K. S. Bush, Inc.
	See also RIF313 RIF324 RIF867 RIF1782 RIF2630 RIF2631 RIF2634 RIF4255 RIF4688 RIF6055
	Bibliography "Period Card Table Sells for $181,500 at Hessney's Auction," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (January 19, 2001): 20, ill. Fran Kramer, "The Winning Card Table," Maine Antique Digest (February 2001): 10-A, ill. Morrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), 87, no. 6, 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), 333n2.