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On Display: House - Commons Room
Table
1740-1790
Category
Furniture
Place of Origin
Rhode Island, Connecticut or Massachusetts; New England; United States; North America
Materials
- Maple, hard
- Maple, soft
- Paint
Museum Object Number
1959.1531
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1959.1531
Object Name
Table
Category
Furniture
Place of Origin
Rhode Island, Connecticut or Massachusetts; New England; United States; North America
Origin Notes
Previously attributed to Newport, Rhode Island, 1735-50. However, stylistic features such as the pronounced overhang of the top, the bold cyma curves of the skirt, the thick legs and clublike feet, combined with the unusually thick stock of the rails, all suggest an origin outside a major urban area, in Rhode Island or in adjacent areas of Connecticut or Massachusetts.
Date
1740-1790
Materials
- Maple, hard
- Maple, soft
- Paint
Dimensions (inches)
25.5 (H) x 38.5 (W) x 24.5 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
65 (H) x 98 (W) x 62 (D)
Measurement Notes
OW and OD are at top.
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Richards, Nancy E. & Evans, Nancy Goyne. 1997 New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods.
• Published: cat. no. 111 (right), pp. 222-23.Book: Downs, Joseph & du Pont, Henry Francis. 1952 American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 301.Book: Comstock, Helen. 1962 American Furniture: seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century styles.
• Published: no. 227.Book: Fales, Dean A. Jr., et al. 1972 American Painted Furniture, 1660-1880.
• Published: no. 119.