Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Robert F. Trent, "New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture," American Furniture (1999): 218 Click the image to enlarge	Table (subdivided as a pair)
	Object number RIF1213
	Maker Maker, possibly by Christopher Townsend, 1701–1787 Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 28 1/2 � 42 � 35 3/4 in. (72.39 � 106.68 � 90.805 cm)
	Date 1739–49
	Current location State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Possibly ash (primary); white pine (later addition of two legs, stretcher, and rail)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance Old Colony House, Newport, Rhode Island, since at least 1739
	Notes The tables were originally one large table with four legs. In the early nineteenth century they were made into two tables by cutting the original table in half and adding a new pair of legs to each half. The tables retain traces of blue paint.
	Bibliography Luke Beckerdite, "The Early Furniture of Christopher and Job Townsend," American Furniture (2000): 4, 7, fig. 10–11. Robert F. Trent, "New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture," American Furniture (1999): 218–219, fig. 16–17. 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), 38, 58n5.

Table (subdivided as a pair)