Title
Dressing Table
Object Type
Creator
Date
1740-1760
Description
There are three other tables of similar design and construction associated with Job Townsend, Sr., one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (known as the Cole dressing table), a second in the Chipstone Foundation collection in Milwaukee (known as the Ward dressing table and associated with Job Townsend, Sr., by a 1746 bill of sale), and the third in private hands.
Physical description: A molded top above a case fitted with a thumb molded frieze drawer, two small drawers below centering a deeply carved shell, the shaped skirt continuing to angular cabriole legs ending in slipper feet. "21" written in chalk on underside of top. "8-5" on label on underside of top. "X" carved in backside of back panel. Red marking "L 50. 13-44" on inside of large drawer.
For more information, see: Rhode Island Furniture Archive at Yale University Art Gallery RIF1537 (http://rifa.art.yale.edu/detail.htm?id=108273&type=0)
Physical description: A molded top above a case fitted with a thumb molded frieze drawer, two small drawers below centering a deeply carved shell, the shaped skirt continuing to angular cabriole legs ending in slipper feet. "21" written in chalk on underside of top. "8-5" on label on underside of top. "X" carved in backside of back panel. Red marking "L 50. 13-44" on inside of large drawer.
For more information, see: Rhode Island Furniture Archive at Yale University Art Gallery RIF1537 (http://rifa.art.yale.edu/detail.htm?id=108273&type=0)
Cultural Origin
American - Newport, Rhode Island
Medium
mahogany; secondary wood: pine, yellow poplar, maple; brass
Extent
Overall: 30 1/2 x 33 3/4 x 22 in. (77.5 x 85.7 x 55.9 cm)
Collection
Source
Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., New York; Sold to Doris Duke (1912-1993) for Newport Restoration Foundation, Newport, RI, 1970; Whitehorne House Museum, Newport Restoration Foundation, from 1974
Identifier
2002.18
For more information about this item, please contact its owning institution.