Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Newport Restoration Foundation, R.I., 1999.396 Click the image to enlarge	Card table
	Object number RIF2500
	Maker Maker Unknown Maker, formerly attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33?1809
	Dimensions Height: 28 1/4 in. (71.755 cm) Width: 33 3/4 in. (85.725 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., New York; sold to Lincoln Isham (1892–1971), Dorset, Vermont; consigned by his estate to Sotheby Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, May 19–20, 1972, lot 106; sold to Doris Duke (1912–1993) for Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, 1972; Whitehorne House Museum, Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, from 1974
	Associated names Lincoln Isham Ginsburg and Levy, Inc. Sotheby Parke Bernet Doris Duke
	Notes A number of card tables attributed to Rhode Island have facades with serpentine curves in plan and section, beading or gadrooning along the lower edge of the facade, blocked corners, stop-fluted legs, pierced corner brackets, and gouge decoration on the top leaf edge. See the related examples below. Closely related tables have straight legs; see, for example, RIF56. Other similar tables lacking some of the features shared by these two groups are recorded in the database as well.
	See also RIF64 RIF307 RIF840 RIF858 RIF863 RIF2769 RIF2772 RIF2807 RIF3001 RIF3133 RIF3682 RIF3749 RIF4265 RIF4295 RIF4297 RIF4579 RIF4601
	Bibliography Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Important American Furniture, sale cat. (May 19–20, 1972), 19, lot 106, ill. Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien, Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710–1850 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009), 411, entry 41n2.