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Figure 1  Georg Daniel Flohr, View of Newport, ca. 1780–1781. Ink and watercolor on paper. (Courtesy, Bibliotheque Municipale, Strasbourg, France.)

Figure 2  Commode attributed to John Goddard, Newport, Rhode Island, 1760–1775. Mahogany with chestnut and white pine; marble. H. 34 3/4", W. 36 3/4", D. 21 1/2". (Courtesy, Metropolitan Museum of Art.)

Figure 3  Commode, probably Paris, France, ca. 1735. Oak. Dimensions not recorded. (Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, bequest of Susan Greene Dexter in memory of Charles and Martha Babcock Amony.)

Figure 4  Carcass of the commode illustrated in fig. 2. (Courtesy, Israel Sack, Inc.)

Figure 5  Underside of the commode illustrated in fig. 2. (Courtesy, Israel Sack, Inc.)

Figure 6  Detail of the back of a dressing table made by Job Townsend, Jr., for Samuel Ward, Sr., Newport, Rhode Island, 1746. (Courtesy, Chipstone Foundation; photo, Jonathan Prown.)

Figure 7  Drawer of the commode illustrated in fig. 2. (Courtesy, Israel Sack, Inc.)

Figure 8  Commode attributed to John Goddard, Newport, Rhode Island, 1765–1775. Mahogany with red cedar, chestnut, and pine. H. 35 1/4", W. 51 1/2", D. 27 1/4". (Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gift of Mary Bowen Polk in memory of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Calliper Bowen.)

Figure 9  Commode, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1780–1790. Butternut and white pine. H. 34 1/4", W. 47 1/4", D. 24 3/4". (Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gift of Mrs. Dorothy Buhler in memory of Sarah M. Gilbert, gift of Estelle S. Frankfurter, and gift of John Gardner Green Estate, by exchange.)

Figure 10  Jonas Bergner, drawing of John Goddard’s house and shop, Newport, Rhode Island, before 1870. Watercolor on paper. (Courtesy, Newport Historical Society.) The house and shop were built before 1758.

Figure 11  Tea table made by John Goddard, Newport, Rhode Island, 1763. Mahogany with tulip poplar. H. 26 7/8", W. 32 3/4", D. 20 3/8". (Courtesy, Winterthur Museum.)

Figure 12  Roundabout chair attributed to John Goddard, Newport, Rhode Island, 1760–1775. Mahogany with maple and white pine. H. 31",
W. 25 1/2", D. 17 1/2". (Courtesy, Shelburne Museum.)

Figure 13  Side chair, Newport, Rhode Island, 1791–1792. Sabicu and maple. H. 37 3/4", W. 20 1/8", D. 20 1/8". (Courtesy, Winterthur Museum.) The chair is one of a pair that descended in the Almy-Ellery-Bangs families of Newport.

Figure 14  “Backs of Chairs” illustrated on pl. 16 in the third edition of Thomas Chippendale’s Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director (1762). (Courtesy, Historic Deerfield, Inc.; photo, Penny Leveritt.)

Figure 15  Sideboard table made by John Goddard, Newport, Rhode Island, 1755. Mahogany with maple and chestnut; marble. H. 26 3/4", W. 45 1/2 ", D. 21 7/8". (Private collection; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)

Figure 16  Detail of a front leg of the side-
board table illustrated in fig. 15. (Photo, Gavin Ashworth.)

Figure 17  Sideboard table attributed to John Goddard, Newport, Rhode Island, 1755–1770. Mahogany with maple; marble. H. 29", W. 45", D. 21 3/4". (Courtesy, Newport Preservation Society; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)

Figure 18  Detail of the right front leg of the sideboard table illustrated in fig. 17. (Photo, Gavin Ashworth.)

Figure 19   Detail of the right rear leg of the sideboard table illustrated in fig. 17. (Photo, Gavin Ashworth.)

Figure 20  Sideboard table, Newport, Rhode Island, 1755–1775. Mahogany with maple; marble (replaced). H. 27 1/4", W. 31 1/2", D. 18 1/2". (Private collection; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)

Figure 21  Detail of the right front leg of the sideboard table illustrated in fig. 20. (Photo, Gavin Ashworth.)

Figure 22  Detail of the right rear leg of the sideboard table illustrated in fig. 20. (Photo, Gavin Ashworth.)

Figure 23  Sideboard table attributed to the
shop of John Goddard, Newport, Rhode Island, 1760–1775. Mahogany and mahogany veneer with maple and white pine; marble. H. 28", W. 50",
D. 17". (Courtesy, Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Vincent D. Andrus.)

Figure 24  Side table attributed to John Goddard and Job Townsend, Jr., Newport, Rhode Island, 1750–1765. Mahogany with red cedar.
H. 30", W. 50", D. 25". (Courtesy, Redwood Library and Newport Preservation Society; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)

Figure 25  “French Commode Table” illustrated on pl. 64 in the third edition of Thomas Chippendale’s Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director (1762). (Courtesy, Historic Deerfield, Inc.; photo, Penny Leveritt.)

Figure 26  J. P. Newell, detail of “NEWPORT, R.I. IN 1730,” Boston, 1864. Lithograph. 18" x 28". (Courtesy, Historic Deerfield, Inc.; photo, Penny Leveritt.) This lithograph, printed by J. H. Bufford, is after an overmantle painting from the Phillips House on Mill Street. The painting is owned by the Newport Art Museum. The date in Newell’s title is incorrect. The overmantle painting is dated 1740 based on the construction of the Colony House in 1739 and the extension of Long Wharf in 1741.

Figure 27  Fireplace surround installed in Godfrey Malbone, Jr.’s, house by John Stevens, Jr., Newport, Rhode Island, 1749. Marble. H. 49 1/2", W. 68", D. 6 3/4". (Courtesy, Newport Historical Society; photo Gavin Ashworth.)