Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1938.29 Click the image to enlarge	Card table
	Object number RIF867
	Maker Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785 Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Open: 28 1/8 � 33 7/8 � 33 7/8 in. (71.44 � 86.04 � 86.04 cm)
	Date 1755–75
	Current location Minneapolis Institute of Arts
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); maple (hinged and stationary rails)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance Dr. Karl C. Smith, Stamford, Connecticut, 1937; Ginsburg and Levy, New York, 1938; sold to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, 1938
	Associated names Dr. Karl C. Smith Ginsburg and Levy, Inc.
	Construction The single-board rounded-edge oblong top has square, outset corners and an alternately straight and serpentine outline. It is attached to its conforming leaf by hinges set into its rear outside corners, and by two leaf-edge tenon joints, and to its conforming frame by four screw pockets, two in the front skirt, and two in the stationary rear rail. There are multiple glue block shadows on the underside of the top, the inside of the rails, and the interior corners of the frame, and prominent planing marks on the underside of the top. The front and side rails meet the front legs in mortise and tenon joints, exhibiting no wood pins. At the middle of the rear, stationary rail are six rosehead nails joining it to the fixed portion of the rear, hinged rail. The ends of the stationary rails meet the side rails with rabbeted dovetail joints, having finely cut thick-necked pins with half-pins above and below. The rear legs swing by the means of five-knuckled, circular wood hinges and are attached to their rails by mortise and tenon joints, having two wood pins each. While all four cabriole legs have angular knees, the rear legs have rounded ankles and end in shod pad feet, and the front legs have angular ankles with vigorously carved tendons, claws, and talons grasping elongated ball feet. Examined by P.E. Kane, July 28, 2005; notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd
	See also RIF1782 RIF2630 RIF2631 RIF2634 RIF4688 RIF5513 RIF6055
	Bibliography "Masterpieces of Early American Furniture in Private Collections," Antiques 31, no. 6 (June 1937): 288, ill. 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), 333n2.