ATTRIBUTED TO CHRISTOPHER TOWNSEND (1701-1787), NEWPORT, 1740-1770

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A QUEEN ANNE MAHOGANY DRESSING TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO CHRISTOPHER TOWNSEND (1701-1787), NEWPORT, 1740-1770
appears to retain its original brasses; exterior of drawer backs hand-inscribed in graphite, A, B and C
30 ¼ in. high, 36 in. wide, 22 in. deep

來源

Purchased from Teina Baumstone, New York

出版

Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "Mowbra Hall and a Collection of Period Rooms: Part 2," The Connoisseur (August 1972) p. 286, fig. 4.
Laura Beach, "The Past Is Present in Newport: A Couple's Lifelong Love of Antiques," Antiques and Fine Art, (Summer 2005), pp. 118, 121.
The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF338.

拍場告示

Please note that this dressing table is attributed to Christopher Townsend (1701-1787).

榮譽呈獻

Sallie Glover

sglover@christies.com +1 212 636 2230

拍品專文

With its shaped skirt, pointed slipper feet and highly arched skirt with drop finial this dressing table exhibits classic Newport cabinetmaking. For similar examples see Sotheby’s, New York, 20-22 January 2006, lot 559 and Teina Baumstone, advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (June 1970), p. 816.

ATTRIBUTED TO CHRISTOPHER TOWNSEND (1701-1787), NEWPORT, 1740-1770

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