VERY FINE AND RARE CLASSICAL CARVED AND FIGURED 'TRICK-LEG' GAMES TABLE, School of Duncan Phyfe, New York, Circa 1815

Two large age cracks with infill running across the width of the top veneered surface. Another vertical age crack along same surface. Two veneer patches to proper left front both measuring approximately 1/2 inch in length. Interior surfaces with very minor age cracks. Repaired break to the end of one leg. Depth open 35 1/2 in.
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The period when trick leg card tables, or mechanical tables as they were contemporaneously called, were created is concentrated during mainly in the years of 1810 to 1820. They were mostly made in New York City and Philadelphia. Duncan Phyfe and Michael Allison are two prominent makers who are often associated with the form and this example is clearly related to the school of Phyfe, since it closely resembles another table associated with Phyfe and sold at Sotheby’s, New York, January 15-18, 2004, lot 484. A Michael Allison table illustrated in Peter Kenney, et al., Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York, New York, 2011, fig. 75, while similar, is differentiated by its abundance of ornamentation and the inclusion of a skirt. The Allison and Phyfe tables, however, all use the same urn-form pillar with foliate-carved and reeded downswept legs.