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Tilt-top table

Object number

RIF5850

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 28 1/2 in. (72.39 cm) Diameter, top: 24 in. (60.96 cm)

Date

1770–90

Current location

Historic Deerfield, Inc.

Geography

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

Mahogany (primary); maple (block)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Historic Deerfield, Inc., Massachusetts

Bibliography

"Antiques at Old Deerfield," Antiques 70, no. 3 (September 1956): 14, ill.
Dean A. Fales, Jr., The Furniture of Historic Deerfield (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1976), 152, fig. 319.