A CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE

Details

A CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE
The molded rectangular top with one hinged leaf above a conforming frame with shaped skirt, on cabriole legs with ball-and-claw feet
27in. high, 32in. wide, 32in. deep (open)

Provenance

Sold in these Rooms, Highly Important American Furniture from The Collection of Dr. C. Ray Franklin, 13 October 1984, lot 400

Lot Essay

Related single drop-leaf tables include: one that sold in these Rooms, June 16, 1984, lot 418; Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (New York, 1952), no. 310; Barry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, 1974), no. 133, p. 153; Sotheby's New York, May 23-25, 1980, lot 1166 and February 3, 1979, lot 1273; Dean Fales, The Furniture of Historic Deerfield (Deerfield, 1976), fig. 253, p. 122; Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack, October 1, 1977, no. P8720.