Lot Essay
This table originates from the shop of Thomas Affleck, 1740-1795, and is closely related to a table with a pie-crust edge sold in these Rooms, January 26, 1995, lot 164. Both tables were carved by the same hand in an identical pattern. The well planned and executed floral and frond carved legs are the result of a highly skilled London trained carver well versed in Rococo motifs.
Other tables with comparable legs include one in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated and discussed in Heckscher, American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (New York, 1985) p. 195, fig. 124; another example also with compressed ball and dished top is now in the collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society, and illustrated in Barnes and Meals American Furniture in the Western Reserve (Cleveland, 1972), no. 118; a table with a pie crust edge is illustrated and discussed in The Magazine Antiques (March, 1932) p. 114.