Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

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	Object number RIF3381
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 24 7/8 � 25 3/8 � 21 in. (63.183 � 64.453 � 53.34 cm)
	Date 1750–90
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance Israel Sack, Inc., New York. Joan F. Kahn and B. Franklin Kahn Trusts, Chevy Chase, Maryland; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, October 4, 2007, lot 133
	Associated names Israel Sack, Inc. Joan F. Kahn and the B. Franklin Kahn Trusts Sotheby's
	Construction The oblong top has a slightly rounded edge and three-quarter-round outset corners. It is secured to the deeply scalloped frame below by wood pins atop each leg and by screw pockets in the outside face of the long rails of the frame. The rails are connected to the legs by mortise and tenon joints exhibiting two wood pins each. The turned tapering legs end in shod pad feet. Examined by P.E. Kane, October 2007; notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd
	Bibliography Albert Sack, "Regionalism in Early American Tea Tables," Antiques 131, no. 1 (January 1987): 255, ill. Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 263, ill. Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (October 4, 2007), 116, lot 133, ill.

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