Photo: Courtesy Skinner, Inc., Boston and Marlborough, Mass.
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Card table |
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Object numberRIF64 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsClosed: 29 1/4 × 29 1/2 × 14 3/4 in. (74.3 × 74.93 × 37.47 cm) |
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Date177090 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceSkinner, Inc., Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts (sale held Boston), February 23, 2003, lot 217 |
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Associated namesSkinner, Inc. |
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NotesA 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. |
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BibliographyTed Landsmark, "Provenance Provides Pace at Americana Sale," Maine Antique Digest (June 2003): 3-C, ill.Skinner, Inc., Boston, American Furniture and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (February 23, 2003), 5152, lot 217, ill. Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien, Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 17101850 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009), 411, entry 41n2. |