Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, N.H. Click the image to enlarge	Card table
	Object number RIF3682
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Closed: 29 � 32 � 15 in. (73.66 � 81.28 � 38.1 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance John Howland Ricketson III (1902–1986), Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, before 1993; consigned to Northeast Auctions, Hampton, New Hampshire (sale held Manchester, New Hampshire), May 29, 1993, lot 60
	Associated names Northeast Auctions John Howland Ricketson III
	Notes A number of card tables attributed to Rhode Island have facades with serpentine curves in plan and section, beading or gadrooning along the lower edge of the facade, blocked corners, stop-fluted legs, pierced corner brackets, and gouge decoration on the top leaf edge. See the related examples below. Closely related tables have straight legs; see, for example, RIF56. Other similar tables lacking some of the features shared by these two groups are recorded in the database as well.
	See also RIF64 RIF307 RIF840 RIF858 RIF863 RIF2500 RIF2769 RIF2772 RIF2807 RIF3001 RIF3133 RIF3749 RIF4265 RIF4295 RIF4297 RIF4579 RIF4601
	Bibliography Northeast Auctions, Hampton, N.H., The Collection of John Howland Ricketson III, sale cat. (May 29, 1993), 17, lot 60, ill. Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien, Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710–1850 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009), 411, entry 41n2.