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Octagonal Mahogany Tripod Table, New England, c. 1785.
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Marlborough, Massachusetts
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Octagonal Mahogany Tripod Table, New England, c. 1785. Single-board octagonal top with string-inlaid border and slightly recessed in cockbead-molded edges, the bottom screw-mounted to wide beveled cleat tenoned to solid baluster-turned post carved with reeding continuing to spiral fluting above cylindrical base in-cut to conform with three blind-dovetailed cabriole legs with well-defined C-scrolls behind the knees and terminating in equally crisp rat claw feet, refinished, 58cm wide, 53cm deep, 66cm high (23in wide, 21in deep, 26 3/4in high). Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. Jeffrey Tillou Antiques, Litchfield, Connecticut, 26 May 2017. Literature For similarly spiral-fluted and C-scroll-carved octagonal stand, see Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly: MMU Americana Press, 1984), fig. 1.37, p. 50; and Rhode Island Furniture Archive, Yale University Art Gallery, no. RIF994. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Octagonal Mahogany Tripod Table, New England, c. 1785. Single-board octagonal top with string-inlaid border and slightly recessed in cockbead-molded edges, the bottom screw-mounted to wide beveled cleat tenoned to solid baluster-turned post carved with reeding continuing to spiral fluting above cylindrical base in-cut to conform with three blind-dovetailed cabriole legs with well-defined C-scrolls behind the knees and terminating in equally crisp rat claw feet, refinished, 58cm wide, 53cm deep, 66cm high (23in wide, 21in deep, 26 3/4in high). Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. Jeffrey Tillou Antiques, Litchfield, Connecticut, 26 May 2017. Literature For similarly spiral-fluted and C-scroll-carved octagonal stand, see Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly: MMU Americana Press, 1984), fig. 1.37, p. 50; and Rhode Island Furniture Archive, Yale University Art Gallery, no. RIF994. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
The Eric van Rooy Estate: A Connecticut Gentleman'
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