Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Carol C. Sanderson and Christopher P. Monkhouse, Americana from the Daphne Farago Collection (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1985), 39 Click the image to enlarge	Table
	Object number RIF5566
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 26 � 33 � 32 in. (66.04 � 83.82 � 81.28 cm)
	Date 1740–70
	Current location Private Collection
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance John Walton, Inc., Griswold and Jewett City, Connecticut. Nathan Liverant and Son, Colchester, Connecticut; private collection, by 1985
	Associated names Nathan Liverant and Son John S. Walton, Inc.
	Construction The use of separate wooden blocks tenoned into each side of the skirt as a means of attaching the top to the base, along with rosehead nails, appears to be a type of construction peculiar to Rhode Island. The collars at the top of the legs are also suggestive of Rhode Island workmanship. Source: Carol C. Sanderson and Christopher P. Monkhouse, Americana from the Daphne Farago Collection (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1985), 39.
	See also RIF3293 RIF5567 RIF5638 RIF5662
	Bibliography Carol C. Sanderson and Christopher P. Monkhouse, Americana from the Daphne Farago Collection, exh. cat. (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1985), 39, no. 15, fig. 2.

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