Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wis., 1951.2; photo by Gavin Ashworth Click the image to enlarge	Dining table
	Object number RIF589
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Open: 28 1/2 � 57 1/4 � 47 3/4 in. (72.39 � 145.42 � 121.29 cm)
	Date 1710–35
	Current location The Chipstone Foundation
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple (primary); cherry and white pine (secondary)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance Israel Sack, Inc., New York, before 1951; sold to Polly Mariner Stone (1898–1995) and Stanley Stone (1896–1987), Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1951; bequeathed by Stanley Stone to The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1987
	Associated names Israel Sack, Inc. Polly Mariner Stone Stanley Stone
	Construction The 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.
	Bibliography Albert 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), 278–279, no. 129, ill. Robert F. Trent, "New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture," American Furniture (1999): 221, fig. 21. Erik K. Gronning and Dennis Andrew Carr, "Early Rhode Island Turning," American Furniture (2005): 11, fig. 22–23. 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, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 31n53, 181n6.