Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Tea table
	Object number RIF1404
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 26 1/2 � 29 3/4 � 19 1/2 in. (67.31 � 75.565 � 49.53 cm)
	Date 1740–80
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); pine (corner blocks)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance By descent in the Wanton and Lyman-Hazard families, Newport, Rhode Island; Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1982; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Levitt, Jr.; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, January 19, 2001, lot 710; sold to a private collection; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, January 18–19, 2008, lot 235
	Associated names Wanton-Lyman-Hazard families Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Levitt, Jr. Israel Sack, Inc. Sotheby's
	Construction The single-board, rectangular, oblong top is joined to its frame by wood pins concealed by a molded edge, which is applied by wood-filled fasteners. The outside edges of the top are visible below the molding. On its underside are two wood-braces ?one rectangular, with chamfered edges, applied with glue and a screw near a corner of the frame, and one triangular, applied with glue. The rails of the frame are tenoned, without wood pins, to the rectangular tops of the legs. To the underside of the rails is attached a convex skirt molding, continuing at each leg, to an applied convex cove knee bracket. At the interior corners of the frame, each rectangular leg top has two vertical quarter round glue blocks, with chamfered tops and bottoms. The cabriole legs have angular knees and ankles, and slipper feet. Examined by P.E. Kane, January 15, 2008; notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd.
	Bibliography Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (January 18–19, 2008), lot 235. Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana Including Silver, Prints, Folk Art, Furniture, and Property Formerly in the Estate of Ulysses S. Grant, sale cat. (January 18–19, 2001), 253, lot 710, ill. American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–89), vol. 7, p. 1959, no. P5234, 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), 213nn1, 3.