Lot Essay
For a similar pedestal in the collection of the Yale University Art Galleries, see Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses (New Haven, CT, 1992), pp. 264-265
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NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880
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A RENAISSANCE-REVIVAL EBONIZED AND PARCEL-GILT PEDESTAL
New York, circa 1880
The oval top above a conforming frame with two acorn pendants over an urn-shaped support with gilt incised decoration and foliate carving flanked by two stylized eagles and gilt-incised decoration above paw feet, all on a circular spreading foot, on an astragal-shaped base with gilt decoration
42½in. high, 28in. wide, 14in. deep
New York, circa 1880
The oval top above a conforming frame with two acorn pendants over an urn-shaped support with gilt incised decoration and foliate carving flanked by two stylized eagles and gilt-incised decoration above paw feet, all on a circular spreading foot, on an astragal-shaped base with gilt decoration
42½in. high, 28in. wide, 14in. deep