Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy David A. Schorsch, Inc., Woodbury, Conn. Click the image to enlarge	Tavern table
	Object number RIF4823
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 27 3/4 � 39 � 25 in. (70.485 � 99.06 � 63.5 cm)
	Date 1710–40
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple (primary); yellow poplar (secondary)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance Morgan MacWhinne, Southhampton, New York; Marjorie H. Schorsch (1930–2007), Greenwich, Connecticut, New York, and Dallas; sold to Robert Crawford, Richmond, Virginia, 1977. Thomas A. Gray, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; consigned to Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, March 29, 2010, lot 0050; sold to David A. Schorsch, Inc., Woodbury, Connecticut
	Associated names Marjorie H. Schorsch Robert E. Crawford Thomas A. Gray Morgan Macwhinnie Brunk Auctions David A. Schorsch and Eileen Smiles Antiques
	Construction The oblong, rectangular top, constructed in the "breadboard" manner, consists of two long boards, fixed with two wood pins apiece to the frame below and centering a narrow filler strip, the whole flanked by transverse cleats attached with nails. The straight-skirted frame contains a single plain-fronted drawer, whose front meets the arched-top drawer sides in dovetail joints with a single large tail, with a half-pin above and a half-pin with rabbet below. The rails, including the rail below the drawer front, are tenoned and wood-pinned to the tops of the turned legs. The rectangular stretchers, set flush with the outside faces of the legs, are also tenoned and wood-pinned to the legs. Two of the turned legs, reduced in height, have been fitted with risers. Notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd from photographs supplied by David A. Schorsch, Inc., and Brunk Auctions.
	Notes The red paint was not original and has since been removed.
	Bibliography Lita Solis-Cohen, "The Thomas Gray Sale," Maine Antique Digest (June 2010): 39-A, ill. Brunk Auctions, "The Thomas A. Gray Collection," auction held March 29, 2010, http://www.brunkauctions.com/search/lotdetail.php?id=51827 (accessed May 28, 2010), lot 0050. "Marjorie Schorsch advertisement," The Clarion (Summer 1977): 47, ill.