拍品专文
With its elegantly expanding base, this table exhibits both the aesthetic and technical virtuosity of its maker. It is also a response to the desire for versatile dining forms and the enthusiasm for mechanical furniture that Americans were expressing around the turn of the century. The design of the accordian-action dining table has been traditionally attributed to Richard Gillow of Gillow and Co., Lancaster and London, England and the design of this table most probably was inspired by an English version (see Lindsay Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs: 1760-1800 (Hertfordshire, U.K., 1955) fig. 55, for set of dining tables with a similar base.)
The shallow, leaf-carved knees, reeded arched legs, and brass paw feet of this table are nearly identical to an accordian action dining table attributed to the Philadelphia cabinetmaker Henry Connelly (w. 1801-1826), illustrated in Marian S. Carson, "Sheraton's Influence in Philadelphia," Antiques (April 1953), pp.344. Two other tables with similar features are illustrated in American Antiques from Israel Sack (Washington, 1969 and 1974), vol. 1, pp.34, no.110, and vol. 5, pp.1306-7.
The shallow, leaf-carved knees, reeded arched legs, and brass paw feet of this table are nearly identical to an accordian action dining table attributed to the Philadelphia cabinetmaker Henry Connelly (w. 1801-1826), illustrated in Marian S. Carson, "Sheraton's Influence in Philadelphia," Antiques (April 1953), pp.344. Two other tables with similar features are illustrated in American Antiques from Israel Sack (Washington, 1969 and 1974), vol. 1, pp.34, no.110, and vol. 5, pp.1306-7.