Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Christie's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Pier table
	Object number RIF4416
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 32 1/2 � 53 3/4 � 26 1/4 in. (82.55 � 136.525 � 66.675 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location Wunsch Americana Foundation, Inc.
	Geography Possibly made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); maple (back rail), pine (blocks)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Possible line of descent: Nicholas Brown (1729–1791), Providence, Rhode Island, or his daughter and son-in-law, Hope Ives (n�e Brown,1773–1855) and Thomas Poynton Ives (1769–1835), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to their daughter Mrs. William G. Goddard (n�e Charlotte Rhoda Ives, born 1792), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to her son, William Goddard (1825–1907), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter Mrs. Charles Oliver Iselin (n�e Edith Hope Goddard, 1868–1970), Providence, Rhode Island, Glen Head, New York, and Aiken, South Carolina; sold to Harry Arons, Ansonia, Connecticut, through Maxwell Turner; sold to Joseph K. Ott (1929–1994), Providence, Rhode Island, 1966; by descent to his wife, Anne Ott, Providence, Rhode Island; consigned to Christie's, New York, January 20, 2012, lot 153; sold to the Wunsch Americana Foundation, New York
	Associated names Nicholas Brown Hope Brown Ives Thomas Poynton Ives Charlotte Ives Goddard William Goddard Edith Goddard Iselin Maxwell Turner Harry Arons Joseph K. Ott Anne Northrop Ott Christie's
	Construction The single-board top is molded on all four sides and attached to the frame with screw pockets-- two on each end and three each on the front and back-- and a medial brace, dovetailed into the front and rear rail and screwed to the top. There is a molding below the top on the front and sides. The legs are connected to the rails by means of mortise and tenon joints, exhibiting two wood pins apiece, and vertical chamfered glue blocks (one is missing). There is a fillet molding near the bottom of the skirt, above a row of incised diagonal diaper carving. Scrolling openwork brackets (some replaced) decorate the juncture of skirts and legs at the front and sides. The brackets exhibit wood pins and are possibly tenoned into the skirt and leg. Each square leg is stop-fluted on all four sides. Examined by P. E. Kane and W. S. Braznell, January 14, 2012; notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd.
	Bibliography Joseph K. Ott, "John Townsend: A Chair and Two Tables," Antiques 94, no. 3 (September 1968): 389–390, fig. 3. Joseph K. Ott, "Some Rhode Island Furniture," Antiques 107, no. 5 (May 1975): 941, fig. 3. Christie's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Ott, sale cat. (January 20, 2012), 62–63, lot 153, ill.