Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., Bequest of Dr. Benjamin A. Hewitt, B.A. 1943, Ph.D. 1952 Click the image to enlarge	Card table
	Object number RIF3612
	Maker Maker, possibly by Holmes Weaver, American, 1769–1848, active 1796–1848
	Dimensions Closed: 28 5/8 � 34 5/8 � 17 1/8 in. (72.71 � 87.95 � 43.5 cm)
	Date 1790–1810
	Current location Yale University Art Gallery
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); white pine and cherry (secondary)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions "K P E," incised, on underside of lower top leaf
	Provenance Benjamin A. Hewitt (1921–2006), New Haven, Connecticut, then Charlestown, Rhode Island, by 1981; bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006
	Associated names Benjamin Attmore Hewitt
	Construction The table has flush back and overlapping hinged-leg construction, hinged-rail design, one leaf-edge tenon, no medial brace, and four horizontal laminations in the curved rails.
	Notes This table was probably part of a set with a matching table and a pembroke table. They are all inlaid with engraved single-unit urns on the pilasters, tassels on the shafts, and flowers on a lightwood prism inlay extending from the cuff line to the floor. These inlays are believed to have been produced in Weaver's own shop.
	Related objects RIF139
	See also RIF13 RIF1023 RIF3402
	Bibliography Benjamin Attmore Hewitt, Patricia E. Kane, and Gerald W. R. Ward, The Work of Many Hands: Card Tables in Federal America, 1790–1820, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), 146–147, no. 29, ill. Benjamin Attmore Hewitt, "Regional Characteristics of Inlay on American Federal Card Tables," Antiques 121, no. 5 (May 1982): 1169, pl. 7, ill. "Acquisitions, July 1, 2006–June 30, 2007," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007): 34, fig. 3. 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), 402n2.