Photo: Courtesy the Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, 1973.4.10 (RHiX5290)
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Tea table |
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Object numberRIF436 |
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MakerMaker, attributed to John Goddard, American, 17231785 |
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Dimensions26 3/4 × 32 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (67.945 × 82.55 × 49.53 cm) |
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Date1760 |
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Current locationThe Rhode Island Historical Society |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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ProvenanceJohn Brown (17361803) and his wife, Sarah Smith Brown (17381825), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to their daughter, Sarah Brown Herreshoff (17731846) and her husband Karl Friedrich Herreshoff (17631819), Providence; by descent to her son, Charles Frederick Herreshoff III (18091888) and his wife, Julia Ann Lewis Herreshoff (18111901), Bristol, Rhode Island; by descent to their son, Julian Lewis Herreshoff (18541919) and his wife, Ellen Frances Taft Herreshoff (18521922), Bristol; by descent to their daughter, Grace Herreshoff Sperry (18811950) and her husband, John L. Sperry, Providence; given to the Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, 1973 |
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Associated namesJohn BrownSarah Smith Brown Sarah "Sally" Brown Herreshoff Grace Herreshoff Sperry Charles Frederick Herreshoff III Julian Lewis Herreshoff John L. Sperry Karl Friedrich Herreshoff Julia Ann Lewis Herreshoff Ellen Frances Taft Herreshoff |
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NotesThis table has been associated with a bill from John Goddard to John Brown, 1760, in the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. |
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See also |
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BibliographyAmy Coes, "A Bill of Sale from John Goddard to John Brown and the Furniture It Documents," Antiques 169, no. 5 (May 2006): 130131, fig. 4, 4a, 4b.Jeffrey P. Greene, American Furniture of the 18th Century: History, Technique, Structure (Newtown, Conn: The Taunton Press, 1996), 271, ill. Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana Including Property from the Collection of Joan Oestreich Kend, sale cat. (January 2021, 2017), fig. 2. 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), 330n5. |