Claggett Wilson, Extendable dining table

circa 1930
Birdseye maple and satinwood-veneered wood.
First image, with later tabletop: 29 7/8 x 44 x 131 in. (75.9 x 111.8 x 332.7 cm)
Second image, with original tabletop and two leaves: 29 5/8 x 44 x 100 in. (75.2 x 111.8 x 254 cm)
Third image, with original tabletop and no leaves: 29 5/8 x 44 x 60 in. (75.2 x 111.8 x 152.4 cm)
Together with two leaves and an additional later top.

Provenance

Samuel Adolph and Margaret Valentine Lewisohn, New York, circa 1930
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, May 17, 1939, lot 426 (partial)
William Henry Vanderbilt III
Thence by descent
Private collection, San Francisco, acquired from the above, 1970s
Phillips, New York, "Design," December 17, 2019, lot 153
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Augusta Owen Patterson, "The Decorative Arts," Town & Country, June 15, 1930, illustrated pp. 67, 69