Lot 1534
  • 1534

THE BABBITT FAMILY VERY FINE AND RARE QUEEN ANNE CHERRYWOOD MARBLE-TOP SLAB TABLE, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, CIRCA 1750

Estimate
60,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • cherrywood, marble
  • Height 28 3/4 in. by Width 49 1/2 in. by Depth 25 in.
Appears to retain its original marble slab. Retains a dry surface with a warm reddish color.

Provenance

Descended in the Babbitt family, Wickford, Rhode Island;
Ginsberg and Levy, Inc., New York;
Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Gasque, Palm Beach, Florida.

Exhibited

Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island Historical Society, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, May 16-June 20, 1965, no. 39.  

Literature

Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 1, pp. 189–190, fig. 197.
Ginsburg and Levy advertisement, The Magazine Antiques 40, no. 3 (September 1941): 135.
Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture,(Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), p. 50–51, no. 39.

Condition

Overall good condition, vertical glue blocks replaced.
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Catalogue Note

This table is identified as RIF3061 in the Yale University Art Gallery's Rhode Island Furniture Archive.