August Americana
Description:
Maple and Pine Porringer-top Tap Table, Massachusetts, mid-18th century, the top overhangs a rectangular apron joining tapering legs ending in pad feet, old surface, (restoration),ht. 26 1/2, wd. 33 1/4, dp. 25 1/2 in.
Provenance: Stephen Score, 1980.
Literature: Illustrated in John Kirk, The Impecunious Collector, #129.
Estimate $4,000-6,000
one foot mostly pieced, another pieced 1/2, cracks and looseness to top with renailing. top and bottom may be by association.
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John KirkStephen L. Fletcher
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