Lot 401
401
PROPERTY OF AN EAST COAST UNIVERSITY
A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY TILT-TOP TEA TABLE

NEWPORT, 1760-1780

Details
A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY TILT-TOP TEA TABLE
Newport, 1760-1780
The dished circular top tilting above a ring-turned tapering columnar pedestal with spiral carved urn, on foliate and anthemion carved tripod arched cabriole legs with ball-and-claw feet
27in. high, 31¾in. diameter

Lot Essay

A related tea table is illustrated in The John Brown House: Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island (Providence, 1965), pp. 38-39, fig. 33; and p. 163, fig. 33 from the same publication. A second related table is illustrated in Antiques (February 1974), p. 241.