Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "Newport, A Center of Colonial Cabinetmaking," 147 (April 1995): 554 Click the image to enlarge	Marble slab table
	Object number RIF752
	Maker Maker, attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723?1785
	Dimensions 28 1/2 � 45 � 21 1/2 in. (72.39 � 114.3 � 54.61 cm)
	Date 1755–60
	Current location Preservation Society of Newport County
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); marble (top)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Mr. Louis E. Brooks (1880–unknown) and Mrs. Louis E. Brooks, Marshall, Michigan, 1953; sold to John S. Walton, New York, 1954; sold to The Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island, by 1954
	Associated names Louis E. Brooks Mrs. Louis E. Brooks John S. Walton
	Bibliography "John S. Walton Antiques, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 64, no. 1 (July 1953): 6, ill. Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "The Newport Exhibition," Antiques 64, no. 1 (July 1953): 41, fig. 11. Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640–1820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 100, 210, no. 72, ill. Wendy A. Cooper, In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650–1830, Fifty Years of Discovery since the 1929 Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), 141–142, fig. 159. Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 273, ill. Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "Newport, A Center of Colonial Cabinetmaking," Antiques 147, no. 4 (April 1995): 552, 554, pl. 8. Philip Zea, "The Serpentine Furniture of Colonial Newport," American Furniture (1999): 264–265, fig. 17–19. Christie's, New York, Highly Important American Furniture Deaccessioned from Stratford Hall Plantation, sale cat. (December 4, 2003), 30, fig. 1. Christie's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Ott, sale cat. (January 20, 2012), 26, 28, 30, fig. 2. 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), 227n6.