Tea Table Maker: Unknown

1760–90

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900
Medium

Mahogany (primary) and birch (block)

Dimensions

H.: 27 in. (68.6 cm)
Diameter of top: 30 in. (76.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Stuart J. Holzer in memory of his parents, Ann and Philip Holzer

Accession Number

2019.21.1

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1970; sold to Ann (1917–1999) and Philip Holzer (1919–2011), Great Neck, New York, by 1993; by descent to their son Stuart J. Holzer, Briarcliff Manor, New York; by gift to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2018
Bibliography
  • "Selected Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2019), 100, ill
  • Christie's New York, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, and Silver, sale cat. (January 20, 2017), 70–72, lot 587
  • Patricia E. Kane, "The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables," American Furniture (1999), 10, 12, fig. 13
  • Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 301, ill
  • Philip Holzer, Philip and Ann Holzer Collection (n.p.: privately printed, 1990), 24–27, no. 9, fig. 9.1–9.3
  • American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–89), vol. 3, p. 652, no. 1452, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

tea tables

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