Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Christie's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Tea table
	Object number RIF5898
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 26 1/2 � 19 1/2 � 30 in. (67.31 � 49.53 � 76.2 cm)
	Date 1750–70
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); yellow poplar (glue blocks)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions “X,” inscribed on underside of top
	Provenance Possibly Nicholas Brown (1792–1791), Providence, Rhode Island, or his daughter and son-in-law, Hope Ives (n�e Brown,1773–1855) and Thomas Poynton Ives (1769–1835), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to their daughter Mrs. William G. Goddard (n�e Charlotte Rhoda Ives, born 1792), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to her son, William Goddard (1825–1907), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter Mrs. Charles Oliver Iselin (n�e Edith Hope Goddard, 1868–1970), Providence, Rhode Island, Glen Head, New York, and Aiken, South Carolina; by descent in the family; consigned to Christie's, New York, September 25, 2013, lot 11; sold to Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York, 2020
	Associated names Christie's Nicholas Brown Edith Goddard Iselin Hope Brown Ives Thomas Poynton Ives Charlotte Ives Goddard William Goddard Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc.
	Construction The single-board, oblong, rectangular top is secured to its frame by wood pins, or nails, concealed by a perimeter beaded, quarter round molding applied with fasteners in wood-filled holes. The outside edges of the top are visible below the molding. The underside of the top is chamfered at the corners to accommodate pairs of vertical triangular glue blocks (three are missing) at the joints between the rails and the rectangular tops of the legs. The rails are tenoned into the tops of the legs without wood pins. Applied with brads to the underside of the rails is a quarter round skirt molding. One is missing. At each juncture of leg, rail and quarter round is a carved knee bracket. One is missing. The legs are square in section, with angular knees and slipper feet. Examined by P. E. Kane, J. N. Johnson, and T. B. Lloyd, September 23, 2013; notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd.
	Bibliography Christie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Paintings and Prints, sale cat. (September 25, 2013), 18–19, lot 11, ill. Lita Solis-Cohen, "Americana at Christie's," Maine Antique Digest (December 2013): 29-B, ill.