Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, 1981.48.1 Click the image to enlarge	Tilt-top table
	Object number RIF514
	Maker Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785 Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 26 5/8 in. (67.63 cm) Diameter, top: 32 3/8 in. (82.23 cm)
	Date 1740–80
	Current location The Rhode Island Historical Society
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); cherry (cleats); maple (block)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance Originally owned by John Brown (1736–1803), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent in his family to John Nicholas Brown (1900–1979), Newport, Rhode Island, and Providence, Rhode Island, before 1974; consigned to Michael R. Corcoran, Newport, Rhode Island, July 15, 1974; sold to Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1974; sold to Wunsch Americana Foundation, New York, before 1975; given to the Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, 1981
	Associated names John Brown Wunsch Americana Foundation, Inc. Israel Sack, Inc. John Nicholas Brown Michael R. Corcoran
	Notes Secondary woods: cherry cleats; maple block
	Bibliography Patricia E. Kane, "The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables," American Furniture (1999): 5, fig. 4. John T. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 363, fig. 1452. "Museum Accessions," Antiques 121, no. 6 (June 1982): 1334. American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–89), vol. 5, p. 1143, no. P4068, ill.