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From: Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum (New York: The MacMillan Co., 1952), cat. 289
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Basin stand

Object number

RIF6194

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

29 1/8 × 12 × 12 in. (73.98 × 30.48 × 30.48 cm)

Date

1780–1800

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Made in Rhode Island, or made in Connecticut, or made in Long Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Primary: yellow pine (legs), tulip poplar (drawer front and fixed shelf); secondary: tulip poplar (drawer bottom), white pine (medial brace)

Marks

None

Inscriptions

None

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Joe Kindig, Jr., York, Pennsylvania; sold to Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur, Delaware; bequeathed to Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1969

Associated names

Joe Kindig, Jr.
Henry Francis du Pont

Bibliography

Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum (New York: MacMillan Company, 1952), no. 289, ill.
Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 288–289, no. 151.