Bureau table, ca. 1765, Made in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, American, Mahogany, chestnut, tulip poplar, 34 3/8 x 36 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (87.3 x 92.7 x 52.1 cm), Furniture, Attributed to John Townsend (1732–1809), In eighteenth-century Newport, a thriving seaport ninety miles south of Boston, local cabinetmakers produced some of the most creative and uniquely American of all colonial furniture. One of their innovations was the introduction of carved, lobed shells to terminate the projecting or receding blocking on the fronts of chests and desks
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Bureau table, ca, 1765, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, American, Mahogany, chestnut, tulip poplar, 34 3/8 x 36 1/2 20 1/2, 87.3 92.7 52.1 cm, Furniture, Attributed to John Townsend, 1732–1809, eighteenth-century, thriving seaport, ninety, miles, south, Boston, local cabinetmakers, produced, creative, uniquely American, colonial furniture, innovations, introduction, carved, lobed shells, terminate, projecting, receding blocking, fronts, chests, desks
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