attributed to the Wilkinson/Harding School, 1745-1755, figured single board mahogany top with pie crust molding, tilting on a birdcage support above an inverted baluster turned support, on boldly formed leaf carved legs, with ball and claw feet, 27-1/2 x 29-3/4 x 30-1/8 in.

Provenance: Alan Miller; Property from the Collection of Dudley and Constance Godfrey

Note: Tea tables with inverted baluster pillars were popular in Philadelphia from the mid-1740s through the mid-1750s. This example is one of several by the same turner, the most elaborate of which have carving associated with Brian Wilkinson and Samuel Harding, the leading carvers of that period. Both were selected to provide architectural carving for the Pennsylvania State House, the most important public edifice built in Philadelphia during the eighteenth century (Luke Beckerdite, "Brian Wilkinson, Samuel Harding, and Philadelphia Carving in the Early Georgian Style," American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite [Haverton, PA: Casemate/Oxbow Books, 2021], pp. 123-36. A table nearly identical to this example sold for $97,600 at Pook & Pook Auctions in 2019 (https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/early-philadelphia-chippendale-tea-table-leads-pook-pook-sale/)).