Octagonal Mahogany Tripod Table, New England, c. 1785.

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).
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.