Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy private collection Click the image to enlarge	Tea table
	Object number RIF5068
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 25 3/4 � 32 � 20 1/4 in. (65.41 � 81.28 � 51.44 cm)
	Date 1740–80
	Current location Private collection
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primrary); yellow poplar (corner blocks)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance Israel Sack, Inc., New York. David Brooks Gendron (born 1944), London; consigned to Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, New Hampshire (sale held Manchester, New Hampshire), August 6–8, 2010, lot 852; sold to Deanne Levison, Atlanta
	Associated names Israel Sack, Inc. David Brooks Gendron Northeast Auctions Deanne Levison
	Construction The rectangular, single-board top has an applied, molded edge nailed to it with brads. The underside of the top is routed at the perimeter to receive the skirt rails, which are joined to the legs with mortise and tenon joints, exhibiting no pins at the corners. The connections of legs and rails are reinforced at each interior corner by two vertical pentagonal glue blocks. Applied to the rails with wood pins and brads is a quarter round molding whose underside is flush with the bottom of the rails. The cabriole legs are square in section, and have angular knees and shod slipper feet. Examined by P.E. Kane, August 6, 2010; notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd.
	Bibliography Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, N.H., Annual Summer Americana Auction, sale cat. (August 6–8, 2010), 96–97, lot 852, ill. "Northeast Auction Conducts Annual Summer Americana Sale," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (September 10, 2010): 12, ill. David Hewett, "Northeast's Annual Sale Gets $2.753 Million in Manchester," Maine Antique Digest (October 2010): 31-A.