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Easy chair |
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Object numberRIF370 |
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MakerMaker UnknownMaker, formerly attributed to Job Townsend, Sr., 16991765 |
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Dimensions49 1/4 × 35 1/2 × 30 in. (125.095 × 90.17 × 76.2 cm) |
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Date174060 |
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Current locationPrivate Collection |
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GeographyPossibly made in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany |
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ProvenanceIsrael Sack, Inc., New York, 1978 and 1988 |
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Associated namesIsrael Sack, Inc. |
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Bibliography"Israel Sack, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 134, no. 3 (September 1988): inside front cover, ill.Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 275, fig. 7.4. Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 70, ill. "Israel Sack, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 113, no. 6 (June 1978): 1150. American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 195789), vol. 6, pp. 154849, no. P4590, ill. |