Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Tilt-top table
	Object number RIF667
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 28 in. (71.12 cm) Diameter: 32 in. (81.28 cm)
	Date 1755–80
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); maple (secondary)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance By descent in the Bowen-Clark-Kane families, before 1965; Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., New York, 1965. Doris and Richard M. Seidlitz, Pound Ridge, New York, by 1988; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, January 30, 1988, lot 1777 (withdrawn)
	Associated names Bowen-Clarke-Kane Ginsburg and Levy, Inc. Doris Seidlitz Sotheby's Richard M. Seidlitz
	Notes The table was withdrawn from the Sotheby's sale (New York, January 30, 1988, lot 1777) because its age was questioned.
	See also RIF261 RIF1670 RIF3149 RIF3767 RIF4665 RIF6590
	Bibliography Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 38–39, 163 (detail), no. 33, fig. 33. Patricia E. Kane, "The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables," American Furniture (1999): 12–13, fig. 15. "Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 87, no. 5 (May 1965): 511, ill. Felice Davis, "The American Connoisseur: A 'Young' Collector and American Antiques," Connoisseur 179, no. 721 (March 1972): 199, fig. 11. Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture: The Collection of Doris and Richard M. Seidlitz, sale cat. (January 30, 1988), lot 1777 (withdrawn), ill. "Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 157, no. 1 (January 2000): 1, ill.