Very Fine And Rare New York Queen Anne Figured Mahogany Tray Top Tea Table

circa 1750, top edge with double beaded molding, notched corners, apron with pointed drops, slender cabriole legs with pointed slipper feet, 26-1/4 x 32 x 19 in.

Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Varick Stout, New York, NY; the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Dominick Stout; Sotheby's New York, NY "Americana", January 20, 2012, lot 173, $20,000; The Delany Collection of American Furniture and Decorative Arts

The pointed slipper foot is an important feature in identifying New York as the origin of this tray top tea table, a rare form from the area. A similar example is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (acc. no. 1981.290) and another is in American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, Vol. II. (1969), p. 307, no. 753. Other objects with identical feet are illustrated in Dean Failey, Long Island is My Nation (1998), pp. 118-21, nos. 138-40, Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (1952), no. 108 and 318 and David Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (1992), pp. 90-1, no.18.