Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Bayou Bend Collection, Gift of Miss Ima Hogg Click the image to enlarge	Marble slab table
	Object number RIF901
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 32 3/8 � 45 1/4 � 22 1/2 in. (82.233 � 114.935 � 57.15 cm)
	Date 1785–1820
	Current location Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
	Geography Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); hard maple (stretchers); birch (rear rail); eastern white pine (corner blocks) (by microanalysis)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions "IP" over "16," in paint, underside of marble top
	Style Rococo, Neoclassical, Chippendale, Federal
	Provenance Possibly made for Nathan Bowen (1729–1814), Providence, Rhode Island, or for his son, Nathan Bowen II (died 1848), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, William Bradford Bowen (born 1808), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, Amos Miller Bowen (1838–1907), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, William Manuel Perez Bowen (born 1864), Providence, Rhode Island. Harry Arons, Ansonia, Connecticut, by 1955; sold to Ima Hogg (1882–1975), Houston, Texas, 1955; given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1969
	Associated names Harry Arons Nathan Bowen Nathan Bowen II William Bradford Bowen Amos Miller Bowen William Manuel Perez Bowen Ima Hogg
	Construction The triangular blocks in front are fills set in between the block and front rail. The rear blocks are replaced. The lapped cross stretchers may be later additions to strengthen the frame or replacements of original stretchers. Source: Warren, David B., Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paitnings in the Bayou Bend Collection (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, in association with Princeton University Press, 1998): 109, no. F176.
	Bibliography Helen Comstock, American Furniture: Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles (New York: Viking Press, 1962), fig. 386. David B. Warren, Bayou Bend: American Furniture, Paintings, and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1975), 59, fig. 112. David B. Warren et al., American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1998), 109, no. F176, ill.