Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Pembroke table
	Object number RIF6339
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 27 3/4 � 19 1/4 � 30 3/4 in. (70.49 � 48.9 � 78.11 cm)
	Date 1795–1810
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany and light and dark wood inlay; cherry (hinged rails and front rail); yellow poplar (stationary rails, drawer stops, and drawer sides, bottom, and back); pine (corner blocks, laminated rail, and drawer front)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions Illegible script, in graphite, on underside of drawer bottom; "X," in chalk, on proper left stationary rail and on proper left hinged rail
	Provenance C. L. Prickett Antiques, Yardley, Pennsylvania; sold to Bruce Westcott, New York; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, January 20–21, 2017, lot 4260
	Associated names C. L. Prickett Antiques Bruce Westcott Sotheby's
	Construction The oblong, single-board, line-inlaid top has bowed ends, and a square, line-inlaid edge and is joined to its similarly decorated half-round leaves by four pairs of iron hinges, each leaf thrice-screwed. The joints between top and leaves are quarter round. The top is fixed to its frame by four triangular screwpockets ? one each inside the frame?s interior long rails, and two inside the veneered, bowed, and thrice-laminated simulated-drawer rail ? and two screws in the underside of the rail above the drawer opposite. The interior and exterior long rails are joined by nails through the interior rails. Also nailed to the interior rails? inside faces are drawer supports and rectangular drawer-stop blocks. The drawer?s veneered and line-inlaid and bowed, twice-laminated front meets its flush, flat-topped drawer sides in dovetail joints having narrow, kerf-marked pins with half-pins above and below. The single-board drawer bottom perpendicular to the front, is chamfered at the front and sides, where it fits into grooves. The drawer sides are formerly full-depth now with restored bottoms. The back of the drawer bottom is fixed with later nails to the bottom of the drawer back. In each corner of the frame opposite the drawer is a large vertical quarter-round glue block. There is a vertical block at each end of the frame?s exterior long rails, possibly integral with the legs. Near the midpoint of each rail is a square, carved wood five-knuckled hinge which allows a trapezoidal block to swing and support a hinged leaf. The bottom edge of each block is carved out for a finger hold. The square, tapering legs are inlaid with dots and flowers on their outside faces and with lines down to their inlaid cuffs on all their faces. Examined by P.E. Kane, J.S. Gordon, J.N. Johnson, C. Eskridge, T.B. Lloyd, January 16, 2017; notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd.
	Bibliography Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana Including Property from the Collection of Joan Oestreich Kend, sale cat. (January 20–21, 2017), lot 4260.