BOSTON, CIRCA 1720

Details

A WILLIAM AND MARY TURNED CHERRYWOOD GATELEG TABLE
BOSTON, CIRCA 1720
27 1⁄4 in. high, 44 in. wide, 19 1⁄2 in. deep (closed)

Provenance

Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr. (1909–2009), Scarsdale, New York, by 1952
Israel Sack, Inc., New York
Acquired from above, January 1981

Literature

Alice Winchester, "Living with Antiques: Mowbra Hall in Scarsdale, New York," The Magazine Antiques (June 1952), p. 519.
Helen Comstock, 100 Most Beautiful Rooms in America (1958), p. 34.
Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "Mowbra Hall and a Collection of Period Rooms: Part 2," Connoisseur (August 1972), p. 289.
The Sack Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, acc. no. 5063.
Peter Goodman, Notebook, no. 703.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This table was part of the collection of noted Newport historian and historic preservationist Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr. (1909-2009). Placed alongside panelling from Samuel Phillips' early 18th-century Wickford, Rhode Island house, the table adorned Carpenter's Phillips parlor in his Scarsdale, New York home, Mowbra Hall.

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