Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Yale University Art Gallery, Mabel Brady Garvan Collection 1930.2091 Click the image to enlarge	Work table
	Object number RIF4594
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 28 3/4 � 25 1/8 � 18 3/4 in. (73.025 � 63.818 � 47.625 cm)
	Date 1810–25
	Current location Yale University Art Gallery
	Geography Probably made in Connecticut, or made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Soft maple (primary); eastern white pine (glue blocks, drawer guides), yellow-poplar (drawer sides and back), and chestnut (drawer bottom)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance Henry V. Weil (1864–1943), New York; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, 1925; given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 1930
	Associated names Henry V. Weil Francis P. Garvan Mabel Brady Garvan
	Construction The frame rails are tenoned into the legs. Blocks are glued and nailed at both ends of each side rail. Bead moldings are nailed to the drawer front's outside edges. The drawer front and back are dovetailed to the sides. The bottom is nailed to the back and has feathered edges that fit into grooves in the front and sides. The joints between the sides and bottom are reinforced with glue blocks. Side runners and drawer guides are nailed to the sides of the frame, sand stops are glued in its back corners. Source: David L. Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections and Yale University , (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 282.
	See also RIF4598
	Bibliography David L. Barquist, Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, and Gerald W. R. Ward, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 281–282, no. 155, ill.