Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1959.2842 Click the image to enlarge	Table
	Object number RIF1421
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 27 1/4 in. (69.215 cm) Width, top: 33 3/4 in. (85.725 cm) Width, frame: 27 7/8 in. (70.803 cm) Width, feet: 28 1/2 in. (72.39 cm) Depth, top: 23 in. (58.42 cm) Depth, frame: 18 in. (45.72 cm) Depth, feet: 18 1/2 in. (46.99 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
	Geography Possibly made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany, mahogany veneers (primary); maple (rails); white pine (glue blocks); mahogany (glue blocks supporting the brackets)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance John Wanamaker Company, Au Quatrieme, New York; sold to Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur, Delaware, 1930; bequeathed to Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, 1969
	Associated names John Wanamaker and Company Henry Francis du Pont
	Construction The one-piece top, ogee-molded on all four sides, has a deeper overhang on the ends than on the long sides. The top is attached to the frame with glue blocks on all the rails; it also now is nailed from the underside of the frame. The veneered rails are tenoned and double-pinned to the legs. A carved, interrupted bead molding is nailed to the lower edge of the frame. The pierced knee brackets, nailed to the legs and rails, are supported on the inside by triangular glue blocks. The stop-fluted legs are chamfered on the inner edge; a conforming platform is nailed to the bottom of the leg. Source: Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur, (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 227.
	Bibliography Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 226–227, no. 114, ill. Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum (New York: MacMillan Company, 1952), no. 371, ill. "John Wanamaker New York Collection," Antiquarian 15, no. 5 (November 1930): 14, ill.