Chippendale Period Mahogany Spider-legged Table

Chippendale period mahogany spider-legged drop-leaf side table, the 3 panel top raised on 8 turned supports united by a stretcher, the leaves supported on gate actions. A number of related side tables in mahogany, attributed to ‘The Dumfries House Cabinet-Maker’, possibly Thomas Chippendale, were supplied circa 1760 to Lord Dumfries at Dumfries House, Scotland . A further related table, distinguished by the superb quality of construction, is at Fenton House, Thomas Chippendale supplied ‘Two neat Mahogany Spider leg Tables of good wood’ to Sir Edwin Knatchbull for Mersham-le-Hatch in 1768. A further related table at The Vyne, Hampshire was described in the 1776 inventory as a ‘spider leg’ table (see R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p. 553, figs 18 & 19).