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Lot 672
Rare Eastern North Carolina Chippendale Drop Leaf Dining Table
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Attributed to Edenton, circa 1770, mahogany, oak and yellow pine secondary, rectangular table with drop leaves supported by a single gate leg, each leg with molded edge above a tapered leg terminating in a ball and claw foot with a rear talon.

27.75 x 48 x 18.5 in.
Each Leaf 17.25 in.

MESDA label # S-3749.

Featured: THE FURNITURE of Coastal North Carolina, John Bivins, Jr., 1988, published by MESDA, pp. 168, figure 5.88.

The two fixed center legs on either side are later replacements, but in slots of the original; top with staining and six inch shrinkage crack to one edge.

$4,000 - 8,000