federal-drop-leaf-sofa-table
Lot 595
Federal Drop-Leaf Sofa Table
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Early 19th century, mahogany, with pine and mahogany secondary woods, the top with rounded drop leaves and mahogany cross-banded border, each leaf having double butterfly supports, raised on reeded bipartite legs on casters.

28.5 x 35 x 27.5 in.; each leaf 10.5 in.

Family history claims the table is descended from James Tilton, surgeon for the 1st Delaware Regiment during the Revolutionary War. Tilton would advance to become, in 1813, the nation's first Surgeon General.

Separation to banded veneer at border; repair to center stretcher at joints; later casters.

$800 - 1,200