Drop-leaf Dining Table
Large dining tables with six legs or eight, as here, were made more often in New York than anywhere else in America. This table, with its fully developed cabriole legs, leaf-carved knees, and claw feet, is surely the most ambitiously conceived of all New York dining tables. The carving so closely matches that on sets of New York tassel-back chairs, such as 57.158.1 and 57.158.2, it appears that this table and one of the sets were made en suite.
Artwork Details
- Title: Drop-leaf Dining Table
- Date: 1755–90
- Geography: Made in New York, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Mahogany, tulip poplar, white pine
- Dimensions: 29 1/4 x 70 1/2 x 62 in. (74.3 x 179.1 x 157.5 cm)
- Credit Line: Purchase, Ella Elizabeth Russell Bequest, in loving memory of Salem Towne Russell, 1933
- Object Number: 33.142.1
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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