Lot Essay
One of the most delicate and well-executed examples of the form this table is further distinguished by the survival of its original brown paint. Separated from its peers by the slim cabriole legs, think nakles and distinctive flattened pad feet, it is further embellished with rounded double-cyma aprons that are cut into the skirt in a diagonal fashion that results in a more successful aesthetic appearance than if alighned on a parallel similar to others of its type.
For similar tables see The Decorative Arts of New Hampshire (Manchester, 1964), no 23 lent by Mr. and Mrs. Bertram K. Little; a table once owned by John Hancock of Boston (Sotheby's October 26, 1985, lot 38); a table in the collection of Winterthur Museum (Downs, American Furniture (New York, 1952), no. 304); see also Girl Scout Loan Exhibition (New York, 1929), no. 570; and Warren, Bayou Bend (Houston, 1975), p. 29,
For similar tables see The Decorative Arts of New Hampshire (Manchester, 1964), no 23 lent by Mr. and Mrs. Bertram K. Little; a table once owned by John Hancock of Boston (Sotheby's October 26, 1985, lot 38); a table in the collection of Winterthur Museum (Downs, American Furniture (New York, 1952), no. 304); see also Girl Scout Loan Exhibition (New York, 1929), no. 570; and Warren, Bayou Bend (Houston, 1975), p. 29,