Details
The rectangular dished top over a shaped apron on trumpet baluster legs with bun feet, with curved X-form stretchers, with inscription '880' in white ink to inside of apron, with faint inventory number inscribed in dark ink to outside of apron '5142.2'
24 in. (61.0 cm.) high, 2012 in. (52.1 cm.) wide, 1234 in. (32.4 cm.) deep
Provenance
The Collection of Sir John Prestige (d. 1962), Bourne Park, Kent, England.
The Marion E. and Leonard A. Cohn Collection.
Gift of Marion E. Cohn, 1951, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Christie's, New York, 27 October 2015, lot 197 ($20,000).
Acquired from the above sale.
Literature
R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., Suffolk, 1954, vol. III, p. 321, fig. 2.
L.A. Boger, The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles, New York, 1969, fig. 302.
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