Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	China table
	Object number RIF2942
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 28 3/4 � 32 3/4 � 21 1/4 in. (73.03 � 83.19 � 53.98 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location Private Collection
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); maple and chestnut (secondary)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions "Mrs. Humphrey," twice, in chalk, on underside of top; possibly "B," in chalk, on interior of one long rail
	Provenance Charles Woolsey Lyon, New York. Joe Kindig, Jr., and Son, York, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Reginald Lewis. Sotheby's, New York, January 30–31, February 1, 1986, lot 565; sold to Bridget and Alfred Ritter, Virginia Beach, Virginia; sold to private collection
	Associated names Charles Woolsey Lyon Joe Kindig, Jr. and Son Sotheby's Mrs. Reginald Lewis Mr. Alfred F. Ritter, Jr. Bridget Ritter
	Construction The oblong rectangular top has a molded edge and is secured to its conformingly shaped frame by longitudinal glue blocks at the joints between the top and rails, and by a transverse brace, (and its attendant glue blocks, one missing) set into grooves in the long rails. A lower, applied portion of the skirt consists of a molding above a diagonally incised band, attached to the bottom of the rails with rosehead nails. The legs are joined to the rails with mortise and tenon joints, showing no pins. Large, two-part vertical chamfered glue blocks occupy each corner of the frame. The open fretwork brackets at each juncture of leg and rail are tenoned to the legs. The legs are pentagonal in section, chamfered at their inside corners, and stop-fluted, on their outside faces, from just below a molding under the fretwork brackets to the molded feet, which are held on with countersunk screws. Examined by P.E. Kane, September 8, 2003; notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd
	Bibliography Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (January 30–Februrary 1, 1986), lot 565, 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), 379n5.