Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Dennis A. Carr Click the image to enlarge	Pembroke table
	Object number RIF224
	Maker Maker, formerly attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33–1809 Maker Unknown
	Date 1785–1800
	Current location Private Collection
	Geography Made in Connecticut, or possibly made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Cherry
	Marks None
	Inscriptions "18th cent. Conn., Cherry / Pembroke Table. Rare / open work cross strecher [sic], / fluted legs. / Attrib. to; John Townsend / Descended in the Brown / family of Willamantic, / Conn.," typed on paper card taped to underside of table
	Provenance By descent in the Brown Family, Willimantic, Conntecticut. Private collection, Tampa, Florida, 2003
	Associated names Brown family, Willimantic, Connecticut
	See also RIF410 RIF411 RIF588 RIF654 RIF748 RIF1396 RIF1400 RIF1401 RIF2625 RIF2853 RIF4201 RIF4228
	Bibliography 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), 379n12.

Pembroke table