A WILLIAM AND MARY MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE
A WILLIAM AND MARY MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE
A WILLIAM AND MARY MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE
A WILLIAM AND MARY MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE
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A WILLIAM AND MARY MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE

NEW YORK, 1740-1760

细节
A WILLIAM AND MARY MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE
NEW YORK, 1740-1760
underside of top inscribed in chalk CVH; drawer replaced
29 in. high, 52 3⁄4 in. wide, 23 1⁄4 in. deep (closed)
来源
Possibly Cornelius Van Houten (1682-1748), New Jersey
Richard Vreeland Foster (1884-1962), New Jersey
Clara V. (Rech) Foster (1879-1967), widow
Florence Mitchell, Boonton, New Jersey, 1982, by gift from above in about 1967
Vito Sico, 1982
Christie’s, New York, 19 October 1985, lot 155
出版
Peter M. Kenny, “Flat Gates, Draw Bars, Twists, and Urns: New York’s Distinctive Oval Table with Falling Leaves,” American Furniture 1994 (Milwaukee, WI, 1994), pp. 116-117, 125, fig. 20.
展览
San Marino, California, Huntington Library and Art Gallery, April 1986-July 2016
注意事项
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拍品专文

Both displaying closely related turnings, ogee-shaped aprons and use of mahogany and red gum woods, this table and a celebrated example made for Sir William Johnson were most likely made in the same New York City shop. As discussed by Peter M. Kenny, the Johnson table featured in early publications and was hailed by Wallace Nutting as the "Supreme Gate Leg." The urn-and-baluster turnings on the legs on both table are particularly robust, with pronounced curvature that distinguishes them from other examples with this design (see Peter M. Kenny, “Flat Gates, Draw Bars, Twists, and Urns: New York’s Distinctive Oval Table with Falling Leaves,” American Furniture 1994 (Milwaukee, WI, 1994), pp. 116-118, 123, figs. 15, 18-21, 29). The table offered here bears the initials CVH, which may refer to Cornelius Van Houten (1682-1748) of New Jersey. He married Aagtje Johannis Vreeland (1690-1728) in 1711 and in the twentieth century, the table was owned by Clara V. (Rech) Foster (1879-1967), the widow of Richard Vreeland Foster (1884-1962). According to a note found with the table at the time of its sale in 1985, the table had descended in the family of Richard, whose ancestors included numerous members of the Vreeland family in early to mid-eighteenth century New Jersey. Soon before her death in 1967, Clara gave table to her nurse, Florence Mitchell, from whose estate it was purchased in 1982.

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