View full screen - View 1 of Lot 34. The Dixon Family William and Mary Apple Green-Painted Oval-Top Tavern Table, Massachusetts, circa 1735.

Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey

The Dixon Family William and Mary Apple Green-Painted Oval-Top Tavern Table, Massachusetts, circa 1735

No reserve

Auction Closed

January 25, 06:34 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

figured maple

height 24 in. by width 21 ½ in. by depth 25 ½ in.


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The Dixon Family, Greenland, New Hampshire;

George Morrill Collection, Gray, Maine;

Stephen Score, Boston, Massachusetts at the Philadelphia Antiques Show, 1997.

Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 128, fig. 253.

The table came from an early house belonging to the Dixon family in Greenland, New Hampshire. Two similar tables are respectively illustrated in "Furniture and Other Decorative Arts in the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts," Magazine Antiques (May 1985), p.1117 and a Nathan Liverant & Son advertisement, Magazine Antiques (October 1989), p. 630.