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THE JAMES ATKINSON CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY TEA TABLE

Lot 573
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ID 1362222
Lot 573 | THE JAMES ATKINSON CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY TEA TABLE
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
THE JAMES ATKINSON CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY TEA TABLE
DOCUMENTED TO JOHN GODDARD (1724-1785), NEWPORT, 1773
together with original bill of sale dated December 9, 1773:

1773
James Atkinson to John Goddard Dt
9 10th: Mo
To a Mahogony Dineing Table 4 Feet £4 - 4
To Do Fly Tea Table 3 -
To 6 Black Birch Chairs 4 - 10
£10 - 14
Newport ye 19th of ye 1st Mo. 1774
Errors Excepted [?] John Goddard

The reverse inscribed:

The William Acct Cr.
By Sundry Shoes of George Tennent [?] Recd: £4 - 0 -7 1/2
By Do of William Pryor 1 - 7--
By Do of Jeremiah Phillips 6 - 6 - 4 1/2
£11 - 14
Newport ye 22d of ye 3d Mo . 1774
[?] John Goddard
26 ¼ in. high, 33 in. wide, 32 ½ in. deep




Provenance

James Atkinson (before 1722-1806), Newport, Rhode Island
Probable line of descent:
Captain John Botkin Atkinson (1776-1847), son
James Atkinson (1804-1879), son
Louisa F. Atkinson (1840-after 1930), daughter
George E. Vernon, Newport, 1930
Mr. and Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, Providence, 1936
Thence by descent in the family
Sotheby's, 20 January 2005, New York, lot 1202
Private Collection



Literature

Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., 'The Newport Exhibition,' The Magazine Antiques (July 1953), p. 40, figs. 8, 9.
Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island 1640-1820 (Newport, 1954), p. 107, no. 79.
Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport : The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, New Jersey, 1984), pp. 199, 208, 210, figs. 4.7, 5.3.
Patricia E. Kane, 'The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables,' American Furniture 1999, Luke Beckerdite, ed. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1999), pp. 2-3, figs. 1-2.
Amy Coes, 'A Bill of Sale from John Goddard to John Brown and the Furniture It Documents,' The Magazine Antiques (May 2006), p. 133, no. 29.
The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF1029.



Exhibited

Newport, The Hunter House, The Preservation Society of Newport County, The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640-1820, Summer 1953.
Providence, Rhode Island, The Nightingale-Brown House, site of the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization, Brown University, 1985 to 2004.
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
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