Details
Each square top with waved gallery and candleslide, on cluster-column legs joined by an X-form stretcher
2134 in. (55.2 cm.) high, 1134 in. (29.9 cm.) square
Provenance
With Frazier Jelke, Newport, Rhode Island.
The Collection of James Hallam Boyd, Memphis, Tennessee (executor of the Frazier Jelke estate in 1967).
Thence by descent to his daughter Irene Roosevelt Aitken.
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The same model was sold from the Collection of Mrs. John Rovensky, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15-19 January 1957, lot 980. The Rovensky table had been with the New York dealer, Arthur Vernay.

An 18th century example of this model from the collection of the late Mr. F. Behrens is illustrated in R. Edwards, ed., The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., 1954, vol. III, p. 156, Fig. 2.

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