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Bureau Table
1785-1790
Maker: attributed to: John Townsend, American, 1732-1809
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
1957.37
The Townsend and Goddard families, who dominated Newport cabinetmaking in the mid-eighteenth century, are credited with having developed the Newport block-and-shell form, distinguished by bold blocking capped by convex and concave shells. On this example the shells radiate out from the cross-hatched centers and have noticeably serpentine rays. These details typify furniture produced by John Townsend, to whom this example is attributed.
This object is on view at the gallery.
Bibliography
Gerald W. R. Ward, American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1988), 40, 195, 216–17, 230, no. 109, pl. 10, ill.
Handbook of the Collections (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 89, ill. Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation
that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery's complete or current
knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
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