Figure
21 Oval table with falling leaves, possibly
Flushing, New York, 1690–1730. Cherry with pine. H. 27 3/8"; top:
45" x 61" (open). This table and three carved-top Boston leather
chairs (one of which is illustrated here) were given to Washington’s
Headquarters by the Verplanck family between 1858 and 1872. A dressing table
discovered in Flushing, Long Island, with closely related turnings, possibly
by the same shop or school of makers, is illustrated in Jonathan L. Fairbanks
and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates, American Furniture 1620 to the Present
(New York, 1981), p. 65. (Courtesy, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation
and Historic Preservation, Washington’s Headquarters State Historic
Site, Newburgh, New York; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)
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