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Communion table |
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Object numberRIF3346 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions35 × 111 1/8 × 35 3/4 in. (88.9 × 282.258 × 90.805 cm) |
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Date16801710 |
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Current locationWinterthur Museum, Garden, and Library |
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GeographyProbably made in Little Compton, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumWhite oak (rails and stretchers); white pine (top); soft maple (legs and breadboard ends of top) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsI, 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 |
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StyleJacobean |
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ProvenancePossibly owned by the First Congregational Church, Little Compton, Rhode Island. Israel Sack, Inc., New York, before 1928. Winterthur Museum, Delaware, before 1982 |
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Associated namesFirst Congregational Church of Little ComptonIsrael Sack, Inc. |
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ConstructionThe 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. |
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BibliographyWallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 192833), 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. |