The outset foldover top enclosing a velvet-lined interior with candle recesses and game wells over a drawer and shell-mounted foliate-bordered frieze, on hipped cabriole legs carved with asymmetrical shells and scrolls and with claw-and-ball feet
29¹⁄₄ in. (74.3 cm.) high, 53¹⁄₂ in. (135.9 cm.) wide, 17³⁄₄ in. (45.1 cm.) deep

Alfred H. Caspary, New York and Bonnie Doon, Ritter, South Carolina
The late Alfred H. Caspary, New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 29-30 April 1955, lot 298.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above.

H. Comstock, 100 Most Beautiful Rooms in America, 1958, p. 93 (shown in situ in the living room at Bonnie Doone, Ritter, South Carolina).
F.L. Hinckley, Queen Anne and Georgian Looking Glasses, 1987, p. 114, fig. 115.

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The table, as well as the pair of ribband-back chairs in the Aitken collection, once belonged to the New York stockbroker, art collector and renowned philatelist Alfred H. Caspary (d. 1955). He purchased a South Carolina plantation in 1931 calling it Bonnie Doon. The original eighteenth century house was torched by General Sherman's troops in 1865. Caspary sold Bonnie Doon in 1954, the year before his death, to J. Peter Grace, the head of the W.R. Grace Company.