Lot Essay
The molded overhanging top together with the cyma-shaped brackets, pendants and stop-fluted legs create a bold, architectonic design reflecting the design preferences Rhode Island. A closely related table with similar stop-fluted legs and overhanging top sold at Sotheby's, New York, June 23, 1988, lot 356, another is illustrated in Sack, American Antiques from the Isarel Sack Collection, vol. VIII, p.2303, fig. 5732. Another with pad feet is illustrated in Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture, Early American (New York, 1993), p. 267.