Lot Essay
The urn-turned pedestal base, and elongated webbed ball and claw feet are characteristics associated with tea tables from New York. Tables with history of ownership to the Verplanck and Van Rensselaer families of New York have similarly turned pedestals and carved feet. One such tea table which descended in the Verplanck family and is now located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated in Morrison H. Heckscher, American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (New York, 1985) p. 196, fig. 125.