DIMINUTIVE TEA TABLE WITH CANDLE SLIDES Boston Circa 1755 Carving attributed to John Welch (b. 1711) Primary Wood: Mahogany, Secondary Woods: Maple, White Pine Height: 26 1 / 2 inches, Width: 28 inches, Depth: 18 inches Provenance: Lord Constantine, Crosshall Manor, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. Reference: A table at Winterthur shares the same design and knee carving as this example, please see Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods , entry 367. Another table from the same shop that descended in the Fulton and Bradlee families of Boston appears in Paul Revere's Boston , 1735-1818 , entry 122, page 96; and in Wendy Cooper's In Praise of America - American Decorative Arts, 1650 -1830 , page 193, illustration number 216.
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