Lot 209
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FINE AND RARE QUEEN ANNE CARVED AND FIGURED MAHOGANY DISH-TOP TEA TABLE, Attributed to John Goddard, Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1760

Estimate
8,000 - 16,000 USD
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Description

  • mahogany
  • Height 29 1/2 in. by Width 33 1/4 in.
A note attached to the underside of the top inscribed Table belonged to the grand-father of John A. Brownell, who was a town official in Westport, and lived at Hix Bridge in  the house across from Remington's. Gift of Mrs. John A. Brownell.

Provenance

John Brownell Family, Westport, Massachusetts;
New England Insitution;
Skinner, Inc., Bolton, Massachusetts, June 10, 1989, lot 118;
Donald Sack, Buck Hills, Pennsylvania

Literature

Patricia E. Kane, "The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables", ed. Luke Beckerdite, American Funiture, (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Chipstone Foundation, 1999), pp. 5 & 7, fig. 6.

Condition

Secondary wood is maple
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Catalogue Note

For a detailed discussion of Rhode Island tilt-top tea tables see Patricia E. Kane, "The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables", ed. Luke Beckerdite, American Funiture, (Hanover, NH: Univeristy Press of New England for Chipstone Foundation, 1999), pp. 1-16.