Photo: Courtesy The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wis., 1951.2; photo by Gavin Ashworth
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Dining table |
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Object numberRIF589 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsOpen: 28 1/2 × 57 1/4 × 47 3/4 in. (72.39 × 145.42 × 121.29 cm) |
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Date171035 |
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Current locationThe Chipstone Foundation |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple (primary); cherry and white pine (secondary) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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StyleWilliam and Mary |
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ProvenanceIsrael Sack, Inc., New York, before 1951; sold to Polly Mariner Stone (18981995) and Stanley Stone (18961987), Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1951; bequeathed by Stanley Stone to The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1987 |
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Associated namesIsrael Sack, Inc.Polly Mariner Stone Stanley Stone |
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ConstructionThe legs, stretchers, and drawer case are held together by means of mortise-and-tenon joints with pegs. The central section of the top is pegged to the frame. Each drop leaf is made from three maple boards; the central part of the top is made from two; in each case the boards are held together by interior pins. Source: Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 278. |
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BibliographyAlbert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1950), 240, ill.Stanley Stone, "Rhode Island Furniture at Chipstone, Part I," Antiques 91, no. 2 (February 1967): 211, ill. Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 278279, no. 129, ill. Robert F. Trent, "New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture," American Furniture (1999): 221, fig. 21. Erik Gronning and Dennis Andrew Carr, "Early Rhode Island Turning," American Furniture (2005): 11, fig. 2223. Frances Gruber Safford, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1. Early Colonial Period, The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007), 156n1. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 31n53, 181n6. |