Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wis., 1954.3 Click the image to enlarge	Stand
	Object number RIF990
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 22 in. (55.88 cm) Diameter at top: 11 7/8 in. (30.163 cm)
	Date 1760–80
	Current location The Chipstone Foundation
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); pine (secondary)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance Dokray family, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. John S. Walton, Inc., New York; sold to Polly Mariner Stone (1898–1995) and Stanley Stone (1896–1987), Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1954; bequeathed to The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1987
	Associated names Dokray family John S. Walton, Inc. Polly Mariner Stone Stanley Stone
	Construction The dished top is lathe turned. The top of the pillar is fitted into a rectangular pine block, which is screwed to the top. The legs are fitted into the base of the pillar in dovetail fashion; an iron three-arm brace is screwed to the underside of each leg and to the pillar base. Source: Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 336.
	Bibliography Stanley Stone, "Rhode Island Furniture at Chipstone, Part II," Antiques 91, no. 4 (April 1967): 513, ill. Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 336–337, no. 158, ill.

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