Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Dining table
	Object number RIF3378
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 27 � 14 3/4 � 46 3/8 in. (68.58 � 37.47 � 117.79 cm)
	Date 1785–1800
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Elliott and Grace Snyder Antiques, South Egremont, Massachusetts; sold to Dinah Lefkowitz and Stephen A. Lefkowitz (born 1937), Old Lyme, Connecticut, and New York, before 2007; consigned to Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, New Hampshire (sale held Manchester, New Hampshire), August 4, 2007, lot 716; sold to Nathan Liverant and Son, Colchester, Connecticut; sold to Annie Abram and Steve Novak; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, January 18–21, 2018, lot 1099
	Associated names Elliott and Grace Snyder Antiques Stephen A. Lefkowitz Dinah M. Lefkowitz Northeast Auctions Nathan Liverant and Son Annie Abram Steve Novak Sotheby's
	Construction The single-board rectangular top has a square edge, as do its single-board rectangular leaves, to which it is joined by four sets of iron hinges, each leaf of which is thrice-screwed. The joint between the top and leaves is quarter round. The top is secured to the frame by six visible wood pegs. There are no glue blocks or braces within the frame. The stationary rails, shorter than the hinged rails, are joined to them with cut nails. The stationary rails join the flat, square-edged skirts with dovetails, which are not rabbeted. The stationary ends of the stationary rails are attached to their legs with mortise and tenon joints, showing two pins apiece, as are the hinged legs. The hinged rails are each fitted with a square, five-knuckled wood hinge. The square legs are stop-fluted on the outside faces only. The central two stop-flutes are slightly taller than the flanking two. Examined by P. E. Kane, August 7, 2007; notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd.
	Bibliography Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (January 18–21, 2018), vol. 2, p. 290, lot 1099, ill. Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, N.H., Dinah and Stephen Lefkowitz Collection, sale cat. (August 4, 2007), 80–81, lot 716, ill.