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From: Ralph E. Carpenter, "Mowbra Hall and a Collection of Period Rooms, Part II," The Connoisseur (August 1972): 13, fig. 3
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Tea table

Object number

RIF337

Maker

Maker Unknown

Date

1740–80

Current location

Private collection

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr. (1909–2009), Newport, Rhode Island; private collection

Associated names

Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr.

Bibliography

Alice Winchester, "Living with Antiques, Mowbra Hall in Scarsdale, New York," Antiques 61, no. 6 (June 1952): 516, ill.
Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "Mowbra Hall and a Collection of Period Rooms: Part 2," Connoisseur (August 1972): 285, fig. 3.
Laura Beach, "The Past Is Present in Newport: A Couple's Lifelong Love of Antiques," Antiques and Fine Art 6, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 119, ill.