CIRCA 1725, POSSIBLY GERMAN, CONVERTED FROM A SIDE TABLE

This center table formed part of the celebrated collection of Ogden Phipps (1908-2002) in his Old Westbury, Long Island home. His grandfather Henry Phipps was immensely wealthy, being the second largest shareholder in the Carnegie Steel Company, while on his mother's side both his grandfather Ogden Mills and his uncle Ogden Livingston Mills assembled extraordinary collections of French furniture, porcelain, tapestries and silver, much of which was sold in a legendary sale at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York in 1938.