Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Skinner, Inc., Boston and Marlborough, Mass. Click the image to enlarge	Card table
	Object number RIF64
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Closed: 29 1/4 � 29 1/2 � 14 3/4 in. (74.3 � 74.93 � 37.47 cm)
	Date 1770–90
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Skinner, Inc., Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts (sale held Boston), February 23, 2003, lot 217
	Associated names Skinner, Inc.
	Notes A number of card tables attributed to Rhode Island have facades with serpentine curves in plan and section, beading or gadrooning along the lower edge of the facade, blocked corners, stop-fluted legs, pierced corner brackets, and gouge decoration on the top leaf edge. See the related examples below. Closely related tables have straight legs; see, for example, RIF56. Other similar tables lacking some of the features shared by these two groups are recorded in the database as well.
	See also RIF307 RIF840 RIF858 RIF863 RIF2500 RIF2769 RIF2772 RIF2807 RIF3001 RIF3133 RIF3682 RIF3749 RIF4265 RIF4295 RIF4297 RIF4579 RIF4601
	Bibliography Skinner, Inc., Boston, American Furniture and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (February 23, 2003), 51–52, lot 217, ill. Ted Landsmark, "Provenance Provides Pace at Americana Sale," Maine Antique Digest (June 2003): 3-C, ill. Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien, Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710–1850 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009), 411, entry 41n2.