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Tea Table, Miniature

Date1740-1760

OriginAmerica, Rhode Island, Newport

MediumMahogany

DimensionsOH: 8 3/8"; OW: 13 1/4"; OD: 9"

Credit LineBequest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hennage

Object number1990-277

DescriptionMiniature tea table with porringer top. Rectangular top with turret corners and cyma returns on all four sides, the edge a rounded bevel, the apron joins the legs with cyma shaped brackets, straight skirt, rounded turned legs tapering into slender ankles over platformed wafer pad feet.

Construction: skirt tenoned to legs; top held to frame with 4 angled glue blocks and 4 metal fasteners from the center of each side of the skirt into the underside of the top.
ProvenanceDescended in the Brown-Ives family of Providence, RI.
Ex-collection of Robert Lee Gill
Donors purchased from srael Sack, Inc. in 1984