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Table

Object number

RIF1200

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

27 1/4 × 32 1/2 × 24 in. (69.215 × 82.55 × 60.96 cm)

Date

1775–1800

Current location

Private Collection

Geography

Made in Rhode Island, or made in, or made in
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Maple

Marks

None

Inscriptions

None

Provenance

Mitchel Michael Taradash (died 1973), Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York; sold to Robert Burkhardt (1894–1992), Kutztown, Pennsylvania; sold to G. W. Samaha Antiques, Milan, Ohio. Private collection, Midwest; consigned to Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 5–7, 2005, lot 1334; Private Collection, New York

Associated names

Mitchell M. Taradash
Robert Burkhardt
G. W. Samaha
Northeast Auctions
Private Collection

Construction

The oblong, two-board octagonal top has a slightly rounded edge and is attached to its frame by wood pins and rosehead nails. It is further attached by rosehead nails in a medial brace set into longitudinal cleats with rounded ends screwed into the long rails of the frame below. The brace?s chamfered ends extend through the rails. The inside faces of the splayed, flat-arched rails bear prominent vertical saw marks, and meet the rectangular tops of the splayed, turned tapering legs, which end in outset pad feet, in mortise and tenon joints showing two wood pins each. Examined by M. Taradash, August 6, 2009; notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd.

Notes

The table has teal blue paint.

Bibliography

Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, N.H., New Hampshire Weekend Americana Auction, sale cat. (August 5–7, 2005), 114, lot 1334, ill.