Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Card table
	Object number RIF2084
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Closed: 28 � 36 � 17 in. (71.12 � 91.44 � 43.18 cm)
	Date 1790–1810
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Probably made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); white pine (front and side rails, stationary rail, and corner blocks); birch (stationary rail)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions "P ALLEN / 1981," in graphite, on exterior of hinged rail near proper left corner
	Provenance Lillian Rubin Solomon (1900–1994) and Nathan L. Solomon (1898–1975), Englewood, New Jersey, and Palm Beach, Florida; by descent to the Lillian Solomon Trust; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, October 7, 2006, lot 269
	Associated names Nathan L. Solomon Lillian Rubin Solomon Lillian Solomon Trust Sotheby's
	Construction The bottom leaf is fastened to the frame with screws in pockets in the rails (two at the rear, one on each side, and three at the front). The leaves have two leaf-edge tenons to stabilize the top when open; the underside of the lower leaf has vertical sawmill marks. Vertical blocks with a chamfered corner, some of them two piece, reinforce the joints in each corner. The front rail has a single horizontal lamination. The stationary rail and the hinged rail are fastened together with eight cut nails to the left of the hinge with square teeth. The fixed part of the hinged rail stops short of the leg; the gap is filled with a block. Examined by P. E. Kane, September 30, 2006.
	Bibliography Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana Including Property from the Rhode Island Historical Society, sale cat. (October 7, 2006), 189, lot 269, ill.