ID 696186 
Lot 353  | A WILLIAM AND MARY MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 40 000 
NEW YORK, 1740-1760
underside of top inscribed in chalk CVH; drawer replaced
29 in. high, 52 3⁄4 in. wide, 23 1⁄4 in. deep (closed)
Provenance
Possibly Cornelius Van Houten (1682-1748), New Jersey
Richard Vreeland Foster (1884-1962), New Jersey
Clara V. (Rech) Foster (1879-1967), widow
Florence Mitchell, Boonton, New Jersey, 1982, by gift from above in about 1967
Vito Sico, 1982
Christie’s, New York, 19 October 1985, lot 155
Literature
Peter M. Kenny, “Flat Gates, Draw Bars, Twists, and Urns: New York’s Distinctive Oval Table with Falling Leaves,” American Furniture 1994 (Milwaukee, WI, 1994), pp. 116-117, 125, fig. 20.
Exhibited
San Marino, California, Huntington Library and Art Gallery, April 1986-July 2016
Special notice
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| Medium: | Mahogany, Wood | 
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| Historical era: | Period of William and Mary | 
| Auction house category: | Tables | 
| Medium: | Mahogany, Wood | 
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| Historical era: | Period of William and Mary | 
| Auction house category: | Tables | 
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