Lot 704: THE BABBITT FAMILY RHODE ISLAND QUEEN ANNE CHERRYWOOD AND MARBLE-TOP SLAB TABLE, NEWPORT, CIRCA 1850.

The rectangular variegated grey marble top with molded edge and ovolu corners above a conforming apron, raised on circular tapered legs ending in offset pad feet. Height 28 3/4 inches, width 49 1/2 inches, depth 25 inches.Provenance: Descended in the Babbitt family of Wickford, Rhode Island; Ginsberg and Levy, Inc., New York; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Gasque, Millbrook, New York and Palm Beach, Florida, and by descent to the current owner.Exhibited: "The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture," Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island Historical Society, May 16-June 20, 1965. no. 39. Literature: Illustrated in Luke Vincent Lockwood, "Colonial Furniture in America," vol. 1, pp. 189-90, fig. 197; Joseph K. Ott, "The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture," pp. 50-51, n. 39; and in a Ginsburg & Levy advertisement, 'The Magazine Antiques,' September 1941, p. 135.This table is identified as RIF3061 in the Yale University Art Gallery's Rhode Island Furniture Archive.

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