Lot Essay
With its trumpet turned legs, rising saltire stretchers and octagonal faceted ends, this "square top" tea table is one of only four known to have survived from the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Stylistically, this table shows the influence of Daniel Marot's introduction to England of the French inspired Classical Baroque with leg turnings derived from a Classical baluster shape as compared to the more Anglo-Dutch scroll legs or French spiral-twist legs (Johnson, p. 65).
Two of these related examples have histories of ownership in New York families. The first, now in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum is believed to have been first owned by Peter Schuyler and is illustrated and discussed in Roderic H. Blackburn and Ruth Piwonka, Remembrance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America 1609-1776 (Albany, 1988), pp. 86-87, no. 45. The second, which bears the initials "T.C." and dated "1731" is illustrated in Antiques (October, 1987) p. 848, Chalfont & Chalfont Advertisement. For a third example, see merican Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection (Vol. 1) p. 242, No. 601.
Two of these related examples have histories of ownership in New York families. The first, now in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum is believed to have been first owned by Peter Schuyler and is illustrated and discussed in Roderic H. Blackburn and Ruth Piwonka, Remembrance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America 1609-1776 (Albany, 1988), pp. 86-87, no. 45. The second, which bears the initials "T.C." and dated "1731" is illustrated in Antiques (October, 1987) p. 848, Chalfont & Chalfont Advertisement. For a third example, see merican Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection (Vol. 1) p. 242, No. 601.