Lot 173
  • 173

Very Fine and Rare Figured Mahogany Tray-Top Tea Table, New York, circa 1750

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • mahogany
  • Height 26 1/4 in. by Width 19 in. by Depth 32 in.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Varick Stout, New York

Condition

Top reset; three legs broken out at junction of side rails; a 1/2 in. loss to tray-top molding; one toe cracked and reglued.
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Catalogue Note

Four legged tea tables from New York are extremely scarce.  The attribute associating this table to New York is the form of its pointed "slipper" foot.  A related example is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (acc. no. 1981.290) and another is in American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, Vol. 2. (Washington, DC: Highland House, 1969), p. 307, no. 753.  Other objects with identical feet are illustrated in Dean Failey, Long Island is My Nation, (Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1998), pp. 118-21, nos. 138-40, Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, (New York: Macmillan Company, 1952), no. 108 and 318 and David Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, (New Haven, CT: Yalue University Art Gallery, 1992), pp. 90-1, no.18.