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Table

Object number

RIF5701

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

25 1/2 × 33 × 24 in. (64.77 × 83.82 × 60.96 cm)

Date

1750–90

Current location

Stanley Weiss Collection

Geography

Made in Rhode Island, Probably made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

The Stanley Weiss Collection, Providence, Rhode Island, 2013

Construction

The single-board top has a rounded edge and outset, half round corners, and is attached to its frame by screws through battens with chamfered ends, which pass through the tops of rails. There are empty nail holes in the battens. Each inside corner of the frame has two vertical quarter round glue blocks, some with nails and screws. The flat-arched rails are tenoned and twice-wood-pinned to the rectangular blocks atop the turned, straight legs which end in outset pad feet. Notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd from photographs supplied by Stanley Weiss.

Bibliography

"A Mahogany Porringer Tea Table," http://www.tildenthurber.com/stanleyweiss/pages/items10/sw01042.html (accessed April 17, 2013), sw01042.
Stanley Weiss and Brock Jobe, Fine American Antiques in the Stanley Weiss Collection (Providence, R.I.: Stanley Weiss Collection, 2019), 16, sw01042, ill.