Fine and Rare Philadelphia Classical Plum Pudding Mahogany Sofa Table
1820-1830, plum pudding top with two D-shaped leaves, apron with one drawer on either side and false drawers opposite, foliate carved lyre form pedestals with double turned stretchers, outswept legs on brass paw feet with casters, white pine and poplar secondaries, 28 x 42-1/2 x 31-1/4 in., each leaf adds 9-1/4 in.
Provenance: Carswell Rush Berlin, New York, NY, August 2007 (accompanied by copy of invoice for $45,750); From the Collection of Rob and Jane Hicklin
Note: The carving treatment to the legs relates directly to the legs of a Philadelphia work table in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art and pictured in Charles L. Venerable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (1989), pp. 104-105. The profile of the scrolled leg can be seen in Philadelphia Cabinet and Chair Maker's Union Book of Prices for Manufacturing Cabinet Ware (1828), pl. 5.
1820-1830, plum pudding top with two D-shaped leaves, apron with one drawer on either side and false drawers opposite, foliate carved lyre form pedestals with double turned stretchers, outswept legs on brass paw feet with casters, white pine and poplar secondaries, 28 x 42-1/2 x 31-1/4 in., each leaf adds 9-1/4 in.
Provenance: Carswell Rush Berlin, New York, NY, August 2007 (accompanied by copy of invoice for $45,750); From the Collection of Rob and Jane Hicklin
Note: The carving treatment to the legs relates directly to the legs of a Philadelphia work table in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art and pictured in Charles L. Venerable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (1989), pp. 104-105. The profile of the scrolled leg can be seen in Philadelphia Cabinet and Chair Maker's Union Book of Prices for Manufacturing Cabinet Ware (1828), pl. 5.
