Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wis., 1957.4 Click the image to enlarge	Pembroke table
	Object number RIF415
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 68.58 cm (27 in.); Width, closed: 49.53 cm (19 1/2 in.); Width, open: 115.57cm (45 1/2 in.); Depth: 95.25 cm (37 1/2 in.)
	Date ca. 1957
	Current location The Chipstone Foundation
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); maple (secondary)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions “X,” incised on underside of top and on interior of one of the short rails
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance John S. Walton, Inc., New York; sold to Polly Mariner Stone (1898–1995) and Stanley Stone (1896–1987), Fox Point, Wisconsin, by 1957; bequeathed by Stanley Stone to The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, 1987
	Associated names Stanley Stone Polly Mariner Stone
	Construction The table does not have a drawer. The frame is made of rails tenoned into the top of the legs and secured in place with pegs. A mahogany band, with matchstick carving in the front, is applied to the apron. The top is held in place by two screws driven through the long frame rails. The stationary leaf-support rails are nailed adjacent to the long frame rails; the former are made of poplar and the latter of maple. The flying-leaf-support rails are joined to the stationary rails by square knuckle joints, on their lower inner edges are found hollowed-out handholds. Small pine blocks line the interior perimeter of the frame where it meets the top. Source: Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone, (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 296.
	Bibliography Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 64–65, no. 46, ill. Stanley Stone, "Rhode Island Furniture at Chipstone, Part II," Antiques 91, no. 4 (April 1967): 512, ill. Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 296–297, no. 138, ill. Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "Living with Antiques: Chipstone near Milwaukee," Antiques 133, no. 5 (May 1988): 1150–1151, pl. XIII.