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Tavern table

Object number

RIF5086

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

26 × 42 3/4 × 25 1/4 in. (66.04 × 108.59 × 64.14 cm)

Date

1710–40

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in southeastern Massachusetts, or possibly made in Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Maple and pine

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

William and Mary

Provenance

Arthur E. Beane, Jr., Duxbury and Kingston, Massachusetts; consigned to Skinner, Inc., Boston, November 7, 2010, lot 1. Peter H. Eaton Antiques, Inc., Newbury, Massachusetts, 2013

Associated names

Arthur E. Beane, Jr.
Skinner, Inc.
Peter H. Eaton Antiques, Inc.

Notes

The table has an old surface of red paint over an earlier gray paint.

Bibliography

Skinner, Inc., Boston, American Furniture and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (November 7, 2010), 7, lot 1, ill.
"Peter H. Eaton Antiques, Inc.," http://www.petereaton.com/index2.html, under "Recent Sales" (accessed October 31, 2013).