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Pier table |
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Object numberRIF4416 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions32 1/2 × 53 3/4 × 26 1/4 in. (82.55 × 136.525 × 66.675 cm) |
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Date17801800 |
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Current locationWunsch Americana Foundation, Inc. |
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GeographyPossibly made in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); maple (back rail), pine (blocks) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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ProvenancePossible line of descent: Nicholas Brown (17291791), Providence, Rhode Island, or his daughter and son-in-law, Hope Ives (née Brown,17731855) and Thomas Poynton Ives (17691835), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to their daughter Mrs. William G. Goddard (née Charlotte Rhoda Ives, born 1792), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to her son, William Goddard (18251907), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter Mrs. Charles Oliver Iselin (née Edith Hope Goddard, 18681970), Providence, Rhode Island, Glen Head, New York, and Aiken, South Carolina; sold to Harry Arons (18911967), Bridgeport, Connecticut, through Maxwell Turner; sold to Joseph K. Ott (19291994), Providence, Rhode Island, 1966; by descent to his wife, Anne Northrup Ott (19292015), Providence, Rhode Island; consigned to Christie's, New York, January 20, 2012, lot 153; sold to the Wunsch Americana Foundation, New York |
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Associated namesNicholas BrownJoseph K. Ott Anne Northrop Ott Hope Brown Ives Thomas Poynton Ives Charlotte Ives Goddard William Goddard Edith Goddard Iselin Maxwell Turner Harry Arons Christie's |
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ConstructionThe single-board top is molded on all four sides and attached to the frame with screw pockets-- two on each end and three each on the front and back-- and a medial brace, dovetailed into the front and rear rail and screwed to the top. There is a molding below the top on the front and sides. The legs are connected to the rails by means of mortise and tenon joints, exhibiting two wood pins apiece, and vertical chamfered glue blocks (one is missing). There is a fillet molding near the bottom of the skirt, above a row of incised diagonal diaper carving. Scrolling openwork brackets (some replaced) decorate the juncture of skirts and legs at the front and sides. The brackets exhibit wood pins and are possibly tenoned into the skirt and leg. Each square leg is stop-fluted on all four sides. Examined by P. E. Kane and W. S. Braznell, January 14, 2012; notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd. |
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BibliographyJoseph K. Ott, "Some Rhode Island Furniture," Antiques 107, no. 5 (May 1975): 941, fig. 3.Joseph K. Ott, "John Townsend: A Chair and Two Tables," Antiques 94, no. 3 (September 1968): 389390, fig. 3. Christie's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Ott, sale cat. (January 20, 2012), 6263, lot 153, ill. |