A FINE CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY SMALL DROP-LEAF TABLE

Details

A FINE CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY SMALL DROP-LEAF TABLE
MASSACHUSETTS, 1760-1780

The square top with two drop leaves with cove-molded edges above a scalloped skirt, on squared cabriole legs with ball-and-claw feet--27½in. high, 35¾in. wide, 35¾in. deep (top extended)

Provenance

Sold in these Rooms, Christie's, October 13, 1984, lot 432, C. Ray Franklin Collection

Lot Essay

This table is distinguished by its dense highly figured top with well-defined molded edge, and delicately shaped cyma skirt with peaked ends. For related tables, see Downs, American Furniture (New York, 1952), no. 310; Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack, vol. 5 (1974), p. 1299, P2922; and Heckshcher, AMerican Furniture from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1985), no. 108.