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Lot Essay
This form of table with ends that can be detached and used as pier tables, and often incorporating a central section with hinged flaps, was prevalent in the middle of the 18th century. A nearly identical example of canted form with shaped frieze and similar legs is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Age of Mahogany, London, 1906, p.58, fig.47.