A Very Fine Gothic Revival rosewood games table, attributed to Joseph Meeks & Sons, New York, circa 1845

Katherine S. Howe and David B. Warren, The Gothic Revival Style in America, 1830-1870, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, p. 43, no. 77.

Fair condition; the top with some hairline age cracks to the veneer and with a old repair and minor lifting veneer of one corner; the gaming board retaining the majority of its original decoration with some losses and inpainting; one short side with five losses to molding around one lobe to quatrefoil piercing; some moldings to ogee arches replaced to apron throughout; one long side lacking six moldings to lobes of quatrefoil piercings; loss to one half molding to one ogee arch; the other long side lacking four moldings to lobes of quatrefoil piercings; one short side lacking four moldings to lobes of quatrefoil piercings; the stretcher is lacking the top finial of the urn finial to center; one short side with a replaced acorn finial or knop to the underside of the trestle support; two feet with replaced tips; some chips and losses to the veneers to the feet; sturdy.
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A similar table is illustrated in Sarah B. Sherrill, ‘Living with Antiques Lee B. Anderson’s collection of American Gothic Revival Furniture and Paintings, New York City’, Antiques, May 1976, p. 1040, fig. 17.