Liza and Michael Moses Photographic Archive, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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Object numberRIF110 |
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MakerMaker, attributed to Edmund Townsend, American, 1736/71811 |
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Dimensions33 1/4 × 35 × 19 in. (84.455 × 88.9 × 48.26 cm) |
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Date176585 |
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Current locationThe Erving and Joyce Wolf Collection |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); chestnut (bottom board, some interior glue blocks, brackets and glue blocks of rear feet); pine (cabinet shelves); yellow poplar (all other secondary wood) |
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MarksNone |
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Inscriptions"1" through "6," in graphite and chalk, on interior backs of small drawers [from upper proper-right to upper proper-left]; "2" and "5," in graphite, on interior bottoms of respective drawers; "5," in chalk, on interior proper-right side of drawer 5; "X," in chalk, on interior sides of drawer 5; "1" and "2," in graphite, on tops of dividers under upper two proper-right drawers; "4" and "5," in graphite, on tops of dividers under upper two proper-left small drawers; possibly "T," in graphite, on interior sides at upper front corners; "2," in graphite, on underside of rear batten of top at proper-right end; "2" and "5," in graphite, on underside of rear batten of top at proper-right and left ends, respectively; "3" and "5," in graphite, on underside of front batten of top at proper-right and left ends, respectively, corresponding "3" and "5," in graphite, on interior proper-right and left sides, respectively [at upper front corners]; "J," "78," and illegible letter or symbol, in graphite, on underside of rear batten of top; illegible graphite number or letter, on interior proper-left case side under middle drawer runner; "M" or "W," incised on interior proper-right side of case; "...RA... / ...LEC... / [New Yo]rk / (W. Shir. [T.)] / ...e below / [?] / New York / (W. Shr. T.) N...," printed on torn paper label, glued to case bottom |
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ProvenanceGeorge Gibbs, Jr., (17351803), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter, Sarah Gibbs (died 1866), 1803; by descent to her niece, Sarah Gibbs (18421924), 1866; by descent to her daughter, Sarah Gibbs Thompson (18791939), 1924; by descent in her family, until 1983; consigned to Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, January 27 and 29, 1983, lot 433 |
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Associated namesGibbs familyGeorge Gibbs, Jr. Sarah Gibbs Sarah Gibbs Sotheby Parke Bernet Sarah Gibbs Thompson |
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See also |
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BibliographyBarbara Snow, "Living with Antiques: The Providence Home of Mrs. R.H. Ives Goddard," Antiques 87, no. 5 (May 1965): 585, ill."Sotheby's advertisement," Antiques 123, no. 1 (January 1983): 43, ill. Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Important American Furniture, and Related Decorative Arts, sale cat. (January 27 and 29, 1983), lot 433. Morrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), 17, fig. 10. Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 283284, pl. 20, fig. 7.107.10ac. Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 156. Harold Sack, "Authenticating American Eighteenth-Century Furniture," Antiques 127, no. 5 (May 1985): 1128, pl. V. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 284nn2, 4. |