Sale 9268
New York
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14 October 1999
Price realised
USD 8,625
Estimate
A LATE CLASSICAL CARVED MAHOGANY DINING TABLE Probably New York, circa 1840 The rectangular top with scallop-carved edges and carved acanthus-leaf corners above a conforming frame with molded edge over massive ring-turned stop-fluted carved pillars above a platform base with canted corners and convex sides over legs carved with animal paws and foliate designs, on castors; base in three sections, top with seven leaves 28in. high, 60in. wide, 163in. long
Provenance
Stephen Van Rensselaer III (1764-1839) or Stephen Van Rensselaer IV (1789-1868), son Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend (1828-1912), daughter Harriet Bayard Townsend Barber (1864-1942), daughter Thomas Hunt Barber (b.1889), son Thence by descent to John F. Barber
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