A DIMINUTIVE QUEEN ANNE MAPLE DROP-LEAF TABLE
A DIMINUTIVE QUEEN ANNE MAPLE DROP-LEAF TABLE

MASSACHUSETTS, 1740-1760

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A DIMINUTIVE QUEEN ANNE MAPLE DROP-LEAF TABLE
Massachusetts, 1740-1760
The circular top with two hinged leaves above an apron with double cyma-shaped skirt, on cabriole legs and padded disc feet
25¾in. high, 30¾in. long, 30½in. deep (open)
Provenance
Titus C. Geesey Collection
Northeast Auctions, Hampton, New Hampshire, 3-4 August 1991, lot 621
Sold in these Rooms, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Nicholson, 27-28 January 1995, lot 1044

Lot Essay

A rare Queen Anne form, this diminutive table is distinguished by its delicate cabriole legs, thin hocked ankles and flattened pad feet, original brown paint and convex skirt with cyma carving.

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 sold Sotheby's New York, October 26, 1985, lot 38; a table in the collection of the Winterthur Museum illustrated in Downs, American Furniture (New York, 1952), no. 304; See also Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition (New York, 1929), no. 570; and Warren, Bayou Bend (Houston, 1975), p. 29 and Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection (New York, 1986), vol. 8, p. 2239.

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