Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

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	Object number RIF5838
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 25 1/2 � 33 3/4 � 23 1/2 in. (64.77 � 85.73 � 59.69 cm)
	Date 1750–90
	Current location Private Collection
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); chestnut (glue blocks); maple (battens)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance The Howland family, Newport, Rhode Island until 2006; sold to Nathan Liverant and Son, Colchester, Connecticut; sold to private collection, 2006
	Associated names Nathan Liverant and Son Howland family
	Construction The oblong, two-board top has a rounded edge and half-round outset corners. It is secured to its frame by rosehead nails and screws in two transverse battens fixed to its underside. The battens pass through the tops of the long rails, and are further fixed, with screws or rosehead nails through the chamfered batten ends, to the underside of the top. Two chamfered vertical glue blocks, whose ends are carved to align with the flat-arched rails? integral knee brackets, occupy each interior corner. The rails are tenoned and twice-wood-pinned to the rectangular blocks atop the straight, turned, tapering legs which end in outset shod pad feet. Examined by P. E. Kane and J. N. Johnson, August 22, 2013; notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd.
	Bibliography 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), 323–325, no. 64, fig. 1.