G alleries INC Levy G allery C ataloG 2025
I am very pleased to present the 2025 edition of The Levy Galleries catalog. As always, this is just a small representation of what the gallery has to offer from our collection of American Decorative and related Arts. 2024 was a year filled with magnificent finds, some of which are included within these pages. I am particularly pleased to offer a number of pieces that have never left their original families and this is the first time any collector or institution has had a chance to acquire them. I am equally proud to show some "round trippers" or pieces once owned by Ginsburg & Levy, Inc. or Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc. Finally, a most heartfelt thanks to the two people who make these catalogs possible. Bill Hansen designs the catalog with great care and sensitivity to the subject and Richard Goodbody provides the incredibly beautiful and accurate photographs. Without their efforts this catalog would not happen. I hope you enjoy perusing the pages within and look forward to any questions you might have and especially to a visit.
THE FRANKLIN FAMILY WILLIAM AND MARY GATELEG TABLE New Jersey or Pennsylvania Circa 1730 Primary Wood: Walnut Secondary Woods: Yellow Pine, Atlantic White Cedar (both by micro-analysis)
Frank Levy January, 2025
Height: 29 inches Width: 21 1/4 inches Depth: 47 1/2 inches
Provenance: A handwritten note affixed to the drawer states, “To Whom It May Concern— This Gate Leg Mahogany / table has been Handed down / from the Estates of / William Franklin at Rancocas / Park N.J. To My Grand Father / Benj Franklin who was born / At Hainesport N.J. also / My father Joseph Franklin / Who after moved to / Camden N.J. where I was born. William L Franklin”
A drop-leaf table with a related turning at the Monmouth County Historical Association has a history of fabrication by Thomas Warne (1652 - 1722), a carpenter and joiner of Wickatunk, N.J., about 7 miles north of Freehold. This single example aside, most similarly-turned tables are from the Philadelphia area. In 1928, Philadelphia philanthropist Lydia Thompson Morris (1849-1932) donated a tea table of 1730-50 to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (accession no. 1028-7-110) with a very similar turning. Owned in her Philadelphia-based family, the table was almost certainly made there.
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Thanks to Dr. Philip Zimmerman for his help with this entry.
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