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From: Michael Moses Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), plate 24
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Dressing table

Object number

RIF347

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

29 5/8 × 32 3/4 × 21 in. (75.248 × 83.185 × 53.34 cm)

Date

1750–70

Current location

Private Collection

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); yellow poplar (drawer linings)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1950 and 1974

Associated names

Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), plate 24, ill.
"Israel Sack, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 57, no. 2 (Feburary 1950): 83, ill.
Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1950), 193, ill.
American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–89), vol. 5, p. 1152, no. P4076, ill.