Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy the Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, 1973.4.10 (RHiX5290) Click the image to enlarge	Tea table
	Object number RIF436
	Maker Maker, attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785
	Dimensions 26 3/4 � 32 1/2 � 19 1/2 in. (67.945 � 82.55 � 49.53 cm)
	Date 1760
	Current location The Rhode Island Historical Society
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance John Brown (1736–1803) and his wife, Sarah Smith Brown (1738–1825), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to their daughter, Sarah Brown Herreshoff (1773–1846) and her husband Karl Friedrich Herreshoff (1763–1819), Providence; by descent to her son, Charles Frederick Herreshoff III (1809–1888) and his wife, Julia Ann Lewis Herreshoff (1811–1901), Bristol, Rhode Island; by descent to their son, Julian Lewis Herreshoff (1854–1919) and his wife, Ellen Frances Taft Herreshoff (1852–1922), Bristol; by descent to their daughter, Grace Herreshoff Sperry (1881–1950) and her husband, John L. Sperry, Providence; given to the Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, 1973
	Associated names John Brown Sarah Smith Brown Sarah "Sally" Brown Herreshoff Grace Herreshoff Sperry Charles Frederick Herreshoff III Julian Lewis Herreshoff John L. Sperry Karl Friedrich Herreshoff Julia Ann Lewis Herreshoff Ellen Frances Taft Herreshoff
	Notes This table has been associated with a bill from John Goddard to John Brown, 1760, in the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
	See also RIF150 RIF902 RIF1424 RIF1425 RIF4191 RIF4192
	Bibliography Amy Coes, "A Bill of Sale from John Goddard to John Brown and the Furniture It Documents," Antiques 169, no. 5 (May 2006): 130–131, fig. 4, 4a, 4b. Jeffrey P. Greene, American Furniture of the 18th Century: History, Technique, Structure (Newtown, Conn: The Taunton Press, 1996), 271, ill. Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana Including Property from the Collection of Joan Oestreich Kend, sale cat. (January 20–21, 2017), fig. 2. 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), 330n5.