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Dining table

Object number

RIF5067

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Overall: 28 1/4 × 61 1/4 × 48 1/2 in. (71.76 × 155.58 × 123.19 cm)

Date

1715–35

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple (primary); birch (secondary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Lillian Blankley Cogan, Farmington, Connecticut. Gordon Crumpler, Colonial Heights, Virginia. Crawford and Goodman, Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Henry P. Deyerle (1917–1994) and Mrs. Henry P. Deyerle (née Mary Elizabeth Savage, 1915–1994), Harrisonburg, Virginia; consigned by their estate to Sotheby's, New York (sale held in Charlottesville, Virginia), May 26–27, 1995, lot 372

Associated names

Sotheby's
Dr. Henry Price Deyerle
Mary Elizabeth Deyerle
Lillian Blankley Cogan
Gordon Crumpler
Crawford and Goodman Antiques

Bibliography

Erik K. Gronning and Dennis Andrew Carr, "Rhode Island Gateleg Tables," Antiques 165, no. 5 (May 2004): 126, pl. VII, ill.
Sotheby's, Charlottesville, Va., Important Americana: The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Henry P. Deyerle, sale cat. (May 26–27, 1995), lot 372, ill.
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), 183n1.