Rhode Island Tea Table

No. RDA14179

Fine and rare Newport, Rhode Island Queen Anne tea table, of the the finest quality mahogany with a highly figured Honduras mahogany single board top on very dense Santo Domingo mahogany skirt and legs.
Many forms of Newport furniture display the use of both types of mahogany in a single piece (...a highboy with Honduras case and Santo Domingo legs).    

In Albert Sack's, "The New Fine Points of Furniture" he refers to a similar table as "Superior" (Page 267), though Sack's has a drawer which makes the skirt heavier.   In Sack's Vol. VI another table is pictured without a drawer, with a corresponding slimmer skirt (Page 1038).  Both tables have a center drop and brackets joining the legs to the straight skirt. The table pictured here has a center drop and brackets but the skirt between is a double cyma curve (Cupids bow), which we feel is far superior.

This form of tea table is quite rare and because of the dense mahogany of the legs and skirt, it's in superb original condition, with no loss of height or re-pegging.

Most all the original glue blocks remain with some small angle irons added long ago to help stabilize.  
         
Circa:  1760

• OriginAmerican
• PeriodQueen Anne
• RegionRhode Island
• MaterialMahogany
• Height26 3/4 in
• Width31 1/4 in
• Depth21 1/2 in
• Price$36,500