Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy private collection; photo by Christopher Gardner Click the image to enlarge	Dining table
	Object number RIF80
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Open: 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)
	Date 1710–30
	Current location Private Collection
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple (primary); yellow poplar (runners and drawer); pine (long members of frame and possibly drawer stops)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, New Hampshire (sale held Manchester, New Hampshire), August 1–3, 2003, lot 778; private collection
	Associated names Northeast Auctions
	Construction The 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.
	See also RIF1442 RIF5064 RIF6745
	Bibliography Northeast 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, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 5n3, 23, 180, 182–183, 246, no. 19.