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Mahogany Dish-Top Tea Table
Catalog#: Summer 2007
Category: Furniture - American
SubType: Table
Origin: PA
Era: 18th Century
Height: 28.5 inches inches
Width: 33.5 inches inches
Philadelphia Perfection

A mahogany single board dish-top tea table with bird-cage support. The wonderful suppressed ball shaft rests on fi nely arched legs terminating in crisp ball & claw feet. All in outstanding proportions and completely original (including the wedge). From the Gaffesdy family of Germantown, PA. Circa 1770.

Measurements: 28.5" h; 33.5" d

Reference: Fine Points of Furniture (Good, Better, Best) by A. Sack, page 260 (Best); (the table is virtually identical).






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