Table, tea

Furniture

Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Table, tea

Entry/Object ID

VC.58.123

Description

Table, raised rim, one piece with top, forming round dish-top (or tray-top): top tips and revolves on "bird-cage" device (long cleats under top to prevent warping; platform of "bird-cage" square piece of wood resting on round pedestal which extends through platform, permitting it to revolve; four bulbous-turned balusters atop platform, connecting it with top; cleats under top connected with platform by pivots, permitting tilting of top; latch to hold top down); pedestal turned in heavy bulbous vase shape; unadorned cabriole legs, with cyma curved area at knee from which lower leg emerges; heavy "snake" feet.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unknown

Attribution

Maker

Notes

Dates: 1751 - 1799 Date made: r. 1751 - 1799

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Top off round

Height

29 in

Diameter

29-3/4 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 29 x 29 3/4 in. (73.7 x 75.6 cm)

Dimension Description

Top off round

Diameter

30 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 30 in. (76.2 cm)

Material

Mahogany

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Van Cortlandt Family, Unknown

Notes

Former owner

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Treatment of knees of cabriole legs apparently a regional New York stylistic characteristic. Tea table reproduced by Harden Furniture Company.

Note Type

General Note

Note

Van Cortlandt family possession

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Van Cortlandt Manor, Parlour