拍品 1082
  • 1082

A VERY FINE AND RARE WILLIAM AND MARY TURNED AND FIGURED RED-PAINTED MAPLE TUCKAWAY TABLE, NEW ENGLAND, CIRCA 1720 |

估價
25,000 - 35,000 USD
招標截止

描述

  • Height 24 3/4 in. by Width 28 7/8 in. by Depth 29 7/8 in.: 62.9 by 73.3 by 75.9 cm.
appears to retain its original red wash paint.

來源

John S. Walton, Griswold, Connecticut, April 1987;
Vogel Collection no. 474.

Condition

Appears to retain remnants of its original red paint. Wear, discoloration, rubbing to paint and minor losses commensurate with age and use. The top is of a three-board construction and there is visible separation between each due to shrinkage over time. Secondary wood: Pine
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拍品資料及來源

A virtually identical table is in the collection of Winterthur Museum (acc. no. 1956.525). This table is also one of approximately eight surviving tuckaway tables where the whole top folds down.  The vast majority of tuckaway tables with trestle bases are made with a stationary centerboard and two falling leaves (see lot 955).  While their ingenious convenience suggests many were likely made, the reason for the form’s tremendous scarcity is their inherent fragility.  Other examples of single leaf folding tables are at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (acc. no. 26.124), Wadsworth Atheneum (acc. no. 1926.490); Henry Ford Museum, Henry Wood Erving collection; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Monmouth County Historical Association; and Shelburne Museum (see Richard H. Randall, Jr., American Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, (Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965), pp. 109-11, no. 78; Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, (New York: Macmillan, 1928), nos. 939, 941; Robert Bishop, American Furniture 1620-1720, (Dearborne, MI: Edison Institute, 1975), p. 21; Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1926), p. 178-9, no. 688; Irving Whitall Lyon, The Colonial Furniture of New England, (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), fig. 99).