Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Card table
	Object number RIF2745
	Maker Maker, possibly by Holmes Weaver, American, 1769–1848, active 1796–1848 Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Closed: 28 1/2 � 34 1/2 � 17 in. (72.39 � 87.63 � 43.18 cm) Diameter, top: 34 in. (86.36 cm)
	Date 1790–1810
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany with lightwood inlay
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance Benjamin Attmore Hewitt (1921–2006), New Haven, Connecticut, by 1982. Kenneth Hammitt Antiques, Woodbury, Connecticut, 1983. Andrew D. Wolfe (1922–1999), Pittsford, New York; consigned by his estate to Sotheby's, New York, January 20, 2001, lot 129
	Associated names Kenneth Hammitt Antiques Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Sotheby's Andrew D. Wolfe
	Bibliography "Kenneth Hammitt Antiques advertisement," Antiques 123, no. 3 (March 1983): 473, ill. Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture and Folk Art from the Estate of Andrew D. Wolfe, sale cat. (January 20, 2001), 62, lot 129, ill. Benjamin Attmore Hewitt, Patricia E. Kane, and Gerald W. R. Ward, The Work of Many Hands: Card Tables in Federal America, 1790–1820, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), 146, 181. 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), 402n3.

Card table