Sold for:
$1,968
$1,968
Rectangular Maple and Oak Joined Table, probably Boston or vicinity, 1680-1710, the overhanging top on a frame of four turned legs joined by cutout valances and heavy square stretchers, old mellow surface, (imperfections), ht. 26, frame wd. 32, frame dp. 22 in. Provenance: Estate of Charles P. Fisher. Literature: For an illustration and discussion of a table of comparable form with similar turnings, see Safford, Frances Gruber, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: I. Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007), pp. 122-124, fig. 46.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-03-13
