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.
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.