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Marble slab table

Object number

RIF164

Maker

Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785
Maker Unknown

Dimensions

28 1/2 × 49 × 18 in. (72.39 × 124.46 × 45.72 cm)

Date

1755–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); marble (top)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Caroline Clendenin Ryan Foulke (1910–1987), New York, and Palm Beach, Florida, by 1954; given to the Stratford Hall Plantation, Virginia, by 2003; consigned to Christie's, New York, December 4, 2003, lot 6

Associated names

Caroline Clendenin Ryan Foulke
Christie's
Stratford Hall

Bibliography

Christie's, New York, Highly Important American Furniture Deaccessioned from Stratford Hall Plantation, sale cat. (December 4, 2003), 28–31, lot 6, ill.
Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640–1820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 99, no. 71, ill.