A LATE GEORGE II MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE
PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION 
A LATE GEORGE II MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM MASTERS, CIRCA 1755

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A LATE GEORGE II MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM MASTERS, CIRCA 1755
The octagonal top with a lozenge pierced overscrolled gallery on a tripartite formed base with molded shaped outswept legs joined by cylindrical turned stretchers raised on molded block feet, originally with casters
28 in. (71 cm.) high, 28¾ in. (73 cm.) wide
Provenance
The Collection of Jerome C. Neuhoff; Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 1986, lot 189.

Lot Essay

The unusual table is closely related to a documented octagonal-topped example supplied by London cabinet-maker William Masters to the 2nd Duke of Atholl for Atholl House (now Blair Castle), Perthshire in 1755 (illustrated in A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, New York, 1968, fig. 398). While the bases are closely related, the difference lies in the flattened squared feet on this example. Another, with a virtually identical base with rectangular lozenge-form top from the collection of Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, was sold Christie's New York, 31 January 1981, lot 286 and is illustrated in C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 297. A table with a very similar base but without stretchers was sold from the Michael Lipitch Gallery, Sotheby's London, 22 May 1998, lot 217. Another is illustrated in F.W. Hinckley, Metropolitan Furniture of the Georgian Years, New York, 1988, p. 104, fig. 155. A further example was sold Christie's New York, 12 April 1996, lot 99.

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