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Dining table

Object number

RIF5552

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Diameter, top: 56 in. (142.24 cm)

Date

1750–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Carlsen Gallery, Inc., Freehold and Greenville, New York, November 26, 2011, lot 397

Associated names

Carlsen Gallery, Inc.

Construction

The oblong, single-board top with bowed ends is flanked by half-round, single-board leaves, all with quarter round joints between them. The top is secured to the frame, in part, by transverse braces which span between the long rails near the short, flat-arched rails, and by wood pins visible on its upper surface. The inner rails join the short rails in dovetail joints. The outer rails are tenoned and wood-pinned to the stationary and rabbeted swing legs, which are ring-turned, straight, and tapered, ending in cup-turned feet. Notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd from photographs supplied by Carlsen Gallery.

Bibliography

"Carlsen Gallery, Inc., advertisement," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (November 18, 2011): 129, ill.
"Carlsen Gallery, Inc.," http://www.carlsengallery.com/pastauc/11-26-2011/397.htm (accessed August 7, 2012), lot 397, (auction held on November 26, 2011).