Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy CRN Auctions, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. Click the image to enlarge	Card table
	Object number RIF6385
	Maker Maker, attributed to Stephen and Thomas Goddard, ca. 1785–1804
	Dimensions 28 � 36 � 18 in. (71.12 � 91.44 � 45.72 cm)
	Date 1790–1804
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany, light wood inlay, and ivory
	Marks None
	Inscriptions Chalk inscription on stationary rail behind hinged rail
	Provenance James Burrill (1772–1820), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent in the Metcalf and Burrill families, Providence, Rhode Island. CRN Auctions, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 30, 2017, lot 66
	Associated names James Burrill Metcalf family CRN Auctions, Inc.
	Construction The single-board, half-round top has a square, double-line inlaid edge and is joined to its conformingly shaped, single-board lower leaf by brass hinges set into their respective edges? rear outside corners. There are two leaf-edge mortise and tenon joints. The lower leaf is fixed to its conformingly shaped frame by (among other means) three screw pockets, one each in the inside faces of the three, thrice-laminated sections of the half-round, line-inlaid front rail. There are rosehead nails in the bottom faces of the lowest laminations. A portion of the proper right exterior rear rail swings by means of a round, five-knuckled carved wood hinge. The proper left exterior rear rail is stationary. Photographs courtesy of CRN Auctions, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.; notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd.
	See also RIF274 RIF697 RIF710 RIF5634 RIF6053 RIF6706 RIF5940
	Bibliography "CRN Antiques, Inc., advertisement," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (April 21, 2017): 4C, ill. "CRN Auctions, Inc., advertisement," http://www.crnauctions.com (accessed April 18, 2017), lot 66 (April 30, 2017 auction). "CRN Auctions Will Offer Spring Auction April 30," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (May 6, 2017): 8, ill. "Ruskin Watercolor Leads Eclectic, Half-Million-Dollar CRN Sale," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (May 26, 2017): 41, ill. "CRN Antiques, Inc., advertisement," Maine Antique Digest (May 2017): 17-B, ill. Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo, "Ruskin Watercolor Tops CRN Sale," Maine Antique Digest (July 2017): 22-B, ill. "CRN Antiques, Inc., advertisement," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (April 28, 2017): 57, ill.