Photo: Courtesy private collection; photo by Christopher Gardner
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Dining table |
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Object numberRIF80 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsOpen: 28 3/4 × 58 3/4 × 48 3/4 in. (73.03 × 149.23 × 123.83 cm) Closed, width: 19 3/8 in. (49.21 cm) |
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Date171030 |
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Current locationPrivate Collection |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple (primary); yellow poplar (runners and drawer); pine (long members of frame and possibly drawer stops) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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ProvenanceNortheast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, New Hampshire (sale held Manchester, New Hampshire), August 13, 2003, lot 778; private collection |
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Associated namesNortheast Auctions |
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ConstructionThe top is attached with four large pegs that are visible from above; they are sunk all the way through the height of the frame and protude below. The center section of the top was originally in two sections, one wider than the other, and butted together. The turned members are laminated. Examined by D. A. Carr, July 26, 2003. |
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BibliographyNortheast Auctions, Portsmouth, N.H., New Hampshire Auction, sale cat. (August 1 and 3, 2003), 132, lot 778, ill.Erik K. Gronning and Dennis Andrew Carr, "Rhode Island Gateleg Tables," Antiques 165, no. 5 (May 2004): 127, pl. 8, ill. Frances Gruber Safford, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1. Early Colonial Period, The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007), 156n1. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 5n3, 23, 180, 182183, 246, no. 19. |