The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Pfaffenroth: American Furniture, Silver and Decorative Arts

The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Pfaffenroth: American Furniture, Silver and Decorative Arts

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1023. Very Fine and Rare Diminutive Queen Anne Walnut Drop-Leaf Table, Massachusetts, Circa 1770.

Very Fine and Rare Diminutive Queen Anne Walnut Drop-Leaf Table, Massachusetts, Circa 1770

No reserve

Auction Closed

January 19, 09:11 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Very Fine and Rare Diminutive Queen Anne Walnut Drop-Leaf Table

Massachusetts

Circa 1770


Height 22 1/2 in. by Width 10 1/4 in. by Depth 29 in.

Long Ago Shop, York, Pennsylvania;
Pook & Pook In., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, The Collection of J. Jefferson & Anne Weiler Miller, April 25, 2015, lot 1402.
Maine Antique Digest, July 2015, p. 10-D and 12D.

A very closely related table is in the collection of Historic New England and is illustrated in Brock Jobe, Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast, (Boston, MA: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1993), pp. 240-2, no. 54. Another related table with Hancock family history was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, The Lansdell K. Christie Collection of Notable American Furniture, October 21, 1972, sale 3422, lot 43.