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Tea table
Attributed to: John Goddard (American, 1723/24–1785)
1775–85
Object Place: Newport, Rhode Island
Medium/Technique
Mahogany, fustic (?)
Dimensions
Overall: 69.9 x 80.3 cm (27 1/2 x 31 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number39.164
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Tables, stands, screens
According to family history, Goddard made this "dish-top" tea table for his daughter Catherine; it descended in her family into the twentieth century. This provenance has made the table a key "type specimen" for the identification of other pieces that share the same paw feet and fluted columns. The four, small columns echo the architectonic use of applied quarter columns and other details on Newport case furniture.
Catalogue Raisonné
Eighteenth-Century American Arts No. 59
Yale RIF747
ProvenanceAccording to Duncan A. Hazard, writing in 1929, made by John Goddard for his daughter, Catherine (1757-1816), upon her marriage to Perry Weaver (d. 1827); by descent to son Benjamin Weaver (1781-1863); by descent to son John Goddard Weaver (1812-1892); by descent to daughter Miss Susan J. Weaver (1846-1917); sold by the estate of Miss Weaver to Duncan A. Hazard, Newport, Rhode Island; purchased from Hazard for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts.