Provenance

Henry Moore, Greensboro, N.C., 1805 [see note 1]. Acquired by Fred Bishop Tuck (1867–unknown), Pinehurst, N.C. and Kennebunkport, Maine, November 1929; sold to Henry Hammond Taylor (1878–1933), Bridgeport, Conn., by 1930; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, by 1930; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930

Note 1: According to Fred Bishop Tuck, an antiques dealer in Pinehurst and Asheville, North Carolina, and Kennebunkport, Maine, who found this stand in North Carolina in November 1929, it had been owned in 1805 in the household of Henry Moore of Guilford County, near Greensboro, North Carolina, and descended through four generations of the Moore family (Tuck to Henry Hammond Taylor, November 22, 1929, Francis P. Garvan. Correspondence, Related Papers, and Collection Files. American Arts Office, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven). Although Moore was a common surname in Guilford County, no Henry Moore has been located in county or U.S. census records. A Henry Moore was listed in every census between 1810 and 1840 in Rockingham County, directly north of Guilford county; this man's estate was probated in 1843 (NCCI, 1810, p. 96; 1820, p. 131; 1840, p. 141. Will Book B, pp. 285-287, Rockingham County Superior Court, Wentworth, North Carolina).

Source: Antiqueman's Diary: The Memoirs of Fred B. Tuck by Fred Bishop Tuck | Goodreads