A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD TILT-TOP TEA TABLE
Property from the Collection of the late John R. Williams
A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD TILT-TOP TEA TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO ELIPHALET CHAPIN, CONNECTICUT, 1760-1780

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A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD TILT-TOP TEA TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO ELIPHALET CHAPIN, CONNECTICUT, 1760-1780
28 ½ in. high, top: 35 5/8 x 35 ¼ in. diameter
Provenance
Ginsburg & Levy, New York
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, January 1974, lot 756

Lot Essay

A table with a similarly turned pedestal base, attributed to Eliphalet Chapin and part of the wedding furniture of Anna Barnard of Northampton, Massachusetts, is illustrated in both Connecticut Furniture Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Wadsworth Atheneum, 1967, fig. 169, and The Magazine Antiques (November, 1926), p. 369.
A second related table attributed to the Chapin family and in the collection of the Chipstone Foundation is illustrated in Sarah Neale Fayen, "Tilt-Top Tables and Eighteenth-Century Consumerism", American Furniture (Chipstone, 2003), p. 119, fig. 35.

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