circa 1760-1780, one board tilting dish top with molded edge, birdcage support, ring turned standard with compressed ball, cabriole legs terminating in well carved ball and claw feet, 28-5/8 x 19-7/8 x 19-5/8 in.

Provenance: Levison & Cullen Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1999 (accompanied by copy of receipt for $65,000); Estate of Richard and Shirley Roberts, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Note: Similar examples are illustrated in Sotheby's New York, NY, "Important American Furniture & Folk Art", January 18, 1998, lot 1713, sold for $173,000; Joseph Downs, American Furniture, Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (1952), fig. 280; David L. Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, (1992), pp. 244-47, figs. 130-132; Charles L. Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (1989), p. 48, cat. no. 22; Clement Conger, Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the U.S. Department of State (1991), p. 107, cat. no. 27.