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Tilt-top table

Object number

RIF484

Maker

Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785
Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 29 in. (73.66 cm) Diameter: 29 in. (73.66 cm)

Date

1750–80

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Originally owned by Thomas Durfee (1721–1796), Tiverton, Rhode Island, probably by 1768; by descent to James Durfee (1768–1850), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to Mrs. Richard Borden (née Abbey Walker Durfee, 1798–1884); by descent to her son Thomas James Broden (1832–1902); by descent to his daughter Harriet Minerva Borden (1856–1904); 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

Associated names

Thomas Durfee
James Durfee
Abbey Walker Durfee
Sotheby Parke Bernet
Harriet Minerva Borden
Thomas James Borden
Private Collection

See also

Bibliography

Sotheby 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, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 327n1.