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Tilt-top table |
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Object numberRIF484 |
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MakerMaker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 17231785Maker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 29 in. (73.66 cm) Diameter: 29 in. (73.66 cm) |
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Date175080 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceOriginally owned by Thomas Durfee (17211796), Tiverton, Rhode Island, probably by 1768; by descent to James Durfee (17681850), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to Mrs. Richard Borden (née Abbey Walker Durfee, 17981884); by descent to her son Thomas James Broden (18321902); by descent to his daughter Harriet Minerva Borden (18561904); thereafter by descent in the Durfee and Borden families of Newport, Portsmouth, and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and Fall River, Massachusetts; private collection, Connecticut; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, September 26, 1981, lot 445 |
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Associated namesThomas DurfeeJames Durfee Abbey Walker Durfee Sotheby Parke Bernet Harriet Minerva Borden Thomas James Borden Private Collection |
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BibliographySotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Fine Americana, sale cat. (September 26, 1981), lot 445, ill.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), 327n1. |