A Chippendale Mahogany Side Table

Southern States, Probably Annapolis, Maryland or Virginia, Circa 1765-1775

with flat molded top, over single drawer, on tapered and molded legs, with later applied brackets.

Height 29 x width 36 x depth 17 3/4 inches.

Provenance:

From the Tullie Smith House Collection, Atlanta, Georgia (accession no. 1983.09.M120),

Property from Atlanta History Center, Sold to Benefit the Care and Preservation of the Collections.

Note:

The Tullie Smith House, named after its last private owner, was originally built by Robert H. Smith in 1833. It was moved to the grounds of the Atlanta History Center in 1969, where it stands today.

The interior of drawing retaining envelope containing pieces of the original brackets, the front of envelope inscribed in ink, "Parts of old (original) fretwork brackets to 18th mhg card table bought by Mrs. Harvey Smith (c. 1928) from a family of Smiths living then in Marietta, Georgia, in poverty, who thought they had ancestors in common with Mr. Harvey Smith, my father."

with nice dark surface; shows evidence of formerly being a card table, with fly leg that has been secured to frame via nails; the top back edge showing evidence of formerly having brass hinges installed for a flip top (now missing), the voids where the hinges were set visible; the top surface exhibiting signs of wear commensurate with age and use, including some scratches and dark stains, including some rings, a couple minor age cracks along edges; all the legs mounted with later brackets, some of the brackets are loose, with the nail reinforcements detached, the left-facing back bracket with repaired break and evidence of a patched cockbeaded molding above, the right-facing back bracket has a small chip / loss along front top edge, the interior of drawer retaining envelope containing pieces to original brackets; some leg interiors with minor age cracks; the drawer is missing its lock; the brass pulls appear to be original

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Cain joined Freeman's in 2001 as the company's first American furniture and decorative arts specialist. She began her career in American Decorative Arts as assistant curator at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1984 she became curator of costume at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1986, she relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts and switched from museum work when she joined the American Furniture and Decorative Art Department at Skinner Inc., Bolton and Boston, Massachusetts. Before leaving New England in 1997, she had the great pleasure of directing the cataloguing project of the Folk Art Collection of Nine Fletcher and Bertram K. Little at Cogswell’s Grant, Essex, Massachusetts for the Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England. Ms. Cain joined the cast of the popular PBS series Antiques Roadshow in Season 19.
Growing up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she was greatly influenced by the rich collections of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts held by Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. She notes her good fortune of working in our two great “attic states:” Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Each Commonwealth has tremendous inventory of historic material, great institutions, and citizens who treasure their inherited and collected items. Cain appears on the television Antiques Roadshow as an appraiser of decorative and folk arts.

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A Chippendale Mahogany Side Table

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