Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del. Click the image to enlarge	Communion table
	Object number RIF3346
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 35 � 111 1/8 � 35 3/4 in. (88.9 � 282.258 � 90.805 cm)
	Date 1680–1710
	Current location Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
	Geography Probably made in Little Compton, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium White oak (rails and stretchers); white pine (top); soft maple (legs and breadboard ends of top)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions “I,” incised on interior of one rail and upper inside surface of adjacent leg; “II,” incised on interior of one rail and upper inside surface of adjacent leg; “V,” incised on interior of one rail and upper inside surface of adjacent leg
	Provenance Possibly owned by the First Congregational Church, Little Compton, Rhode Island. Israel Sack, Inc., New York, before 1928. Winterthur Museum, Delaware, before 1982
	Associated names First Congregational Church of Little Compton Israel Sack, Inc.
	Construction The later rectangular oblong top has ?breadboard? ends. Underneath are two (later) transverse battens. The rails below are tenoned to the rectangular tops of the inverted vasiform and reel-turned legs below, each joint showing two wood pins. The tops of the rectangular stretchers below are molded on their inside and outside corners, and the rectangular bottoms of the legs are chamfered at their inside corners. The stretchers are tenoned to the legs, each joint showing one wood pin. Examined by P. E. Kane and J. N. Johnson, April 21, 2014; notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd.
	Bibliography Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), vol. 1, no. 815. Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (New York: MacMillan Company, 1963), no. 815, ill. Robert Blair St. George, The Wrought Covenant (Brockton, Mass.: Brockton Art Center-Fuller Memorial, 1979), 69, fig. 83. John T. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 315, fig. 1223.