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Dining table |
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Object numberRIF5982 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsOpen: 27 1/2 × 56 × 52 3/4 in. (69.85 × 142.24 × 133.99 cm) |
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Date175070 |
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Current locationHopkinton Historical Society |
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GeographyProbably made in Hopkinton, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple (top, legs, and stationary rails); oak (hinged rails) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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ProvenanceBy tradition, Joshua Clarke (17171793), Hopkinton, Rhode Island. Lawrence Wheeler Kenyon (19001983), Hopkinton, Rhode Island; sold to his nephew Richard Grills (born 1932), Rhode Island; given to the Hopkinton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 2007, on loan to Babcock-Smith House, Westerly, Rhode Island, 2014 |
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Associated namesRichard GrillsLawrence Kenyon Joshua Clarke |
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ConstructionThe oblong top has bowed ends with a slightly rounded edge, and is flanked by two-board, half-round leaves. The boards of each leaf are joined by butterfly wedges; the joints between them and the top are quarter-round. Top and leaves are joined by four pairs of iron hinges, each leaf thrice-screwed. Top and frame are joined, in part, by later L-shaped metal brackets. The inner and outer rails are joined by rosehead nails. The flat-skirted short rails meet the swinging-leg ends of the inner rails in dovetail joints, having large, narrow-necked pins with half-pins above and below. The swinging portion of the outer rails are tenoned and double-wood-pinned to the rectangular, rabbeted tops of the swinging legs, which move by means of square, carved-wood, five-knuckled hinges. The turned, tapering legs end in outset pad feet. Examined by P.E. Kane and J.N. Johnson, April 16, 2014; notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd. |
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BibliographyPatricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 233n4. |