DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN FURNITURE AND FOLK ART FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE ABRAM AND STEVE NOVAK
The Bradford-Johnston-Drake-Houghton Family Fine and Rare Federal Inlaid and Figured Mahogany and Birchwood Games Table, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Circa 1805
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The Bradford-Johnston-Drake-Houghton Family Fine and Rare Federal Inlaid and Figured Mahogany and Birchwood Games Table, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Circa 1805
appears to retain its original surface.
Height 30 1/4 in. by Width 36 in. by Depth 17 1/2 in.
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Height 30 1/4 in. by Width 36 in. by Depth 17 1/2 in.
Provenance
Hannah Bradford (circa 1800);
Mary Bradford Johnston (circa 1827);
William Bradford Johnston (circa 1847);
Hattie Johnston Drake (circa 1867);
Francis Drake Houghton (circa 1891);
Dorothy Houghton Bearce (circa 1891);
Barbara Bearce Tuneski (circa 1936);
Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques, Colchester, Connecticut.
Mary Bradford Johnston (circa 1827);
William Bradford Johnston (circa 1847);
Hattie Johnston Drake (circa 1867);
Francis Drake Houghton (circa 1891);
Dorothy Houghton Bearce (circa 1891);
Barbara Bearce Tuneski (circa 1936);
Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques, Colchester, Connecticut.
Catalogue Note
According to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Francis Drake Houghton was a descendant of William Bradford, and certified as such by the Society on December 2, 1911. For a Portsmouth games table with identical legs see Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast, ed. Brock Jobe, (Boston, MA: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities; Hanover, NH: Distributed by University Press of New England, 1993), pp. 259-61, no. 62).
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