Antique and Unique Farm Table

I would love to know more about this table. I can't find it online. I'm hoping someone recognizes something and can tell me more.
I thought the feet were really unique... please help me out.

 

Here is a more detailed photo. It has 4 planks btw

 

The feet are indeed unusual. They aren't exactly a bun, onion or ball foot. They almost look like they have a disk/platform under a *very* wide saucer pad or under a flatten saucer type bun foot sometimes referred to as a Dutch foot like you said in your original message. Usually pad feet are found on cabriole legs of the Queen Anne style, but these legs are **certainly not** cabriole. I do suspect it has Dutch or German connections. The legs are straight and stocky with hardly a turning if any, I think. The legs almost look like they have a type of narrow banding around them where the stretcher is attached.

A close-up pic of foot and leg at eye level, not looking down on it, might help. Also a pic of the underpinning of the table might help in IDing the age. I well be interesting in seeing what Brad and others think! The real furniture gurus will probably be along before the day is out.

https://www.thespruce.com/identifying-antique-furniture-foot-styles-4072015
http://buffaloah.com/f/glos/legs/legs.html#Feet

As you no doubt already know, the chairs look to be c1900 oak pressback chairs.

--- Susan

 

ONLY a passing thought - if the table were built as a work table as opposed to a dining table, I would think there would be a lateral stretcher as well (running the length of the table). Any signs it was removed?

 

My first thought was that the feet were added later but that does not seem to be the case. Haven't seen any quite like it. I searched for lobed, disk, and pad feet tables to see if there was any similar out there. The closest I came was this English table with odd pad feet that are not quite as odd as yours but bear some similarity. .



http://mecox.com/product/pad-foot-round-oak-dining-table

Finding this example leads me to be that this could be English or European in origin. I do think it at least 19th century. Any provenance?

 

There was indeed a lateral stretcher removed at some point ...

 

I found that same piece online It was the closest match I have found to the style of this foot. We picked this up on craigslist. My mother-in-law had the sense to snatch it up right away. It is very well built! Along with the unique feet and legs she had to get it. I will try to get more pics up soon.

It was in a home in California for many years and an antique shop in San Diego before that. The previous owner was told that it was from 1890, but it may have been a guess. No documentation was included. I haven't found any markings.

 

By the way, it is also unusually narrow. I think you are on to something...

 

It's not narrow for here. Three plank construction, and I think the top is early, at least. I've seen monastery tables similarly made.

 

Would love to see more large detailed pictures.....it looks to be SO UNUSUAL!!!!!

 

I already had these photos handy. I'll get more later.
Since getting help from all of you, I have had more luck locating similar tables. "New England 18th Century Tavern Table ," has yielded the most similarities so far. However, they are still only similar. I haven't found anything definitive... thanks so much!

 

You MOST certainly do have an unusual table!!!! I did a WHOLE LOTTA looking and, as others did, only came up with similar feet, and most always at the bottom of a cabriole leg!!! NOTHING matched yours!!!! So, maybe a very creative carpenter???

 

That is the direction my mind is going too. However I'm still trying to find a time frame for it. I think I'll get people interested again when I get back to town and take some more pictures. I think I'll post measurements too. Don't hold your breath. It'll be a couple weeks.
Also, whoever built this table did one heck of a job. It will not even wiggle on a level surface. Not with all of my considerable weight. It could hold up a car. This carpenter is really something. I hope he made many more pieces, and I hope I can track one down some day...

 

I don't see any pics that give a true indication of wood but it looks like it could be pine. Pine was often used by country furniture makers and for things such as work tables. Yours could be an unusual example made by a country worker for a specific purpose. It uses turned legs so not just cobbled together but maybe by a small shop and the foot a regional variation.

I think the width of that center board is probably your best indicator of age. If 12"-16" it is probably mid 19th century or so. By 1880, you began to see smaller dimensional lumber used. If wider than 16" it could be earlier. Truly wide board and the trees they came from began to diminish mid 19th century. This is not a hard and fast rule and country carpenters used what was available to them. The loss of an old large tree might provide wide boards for them at any time. I also don't know how much this applies to England and Europe. My experience is with American furniture.

 

I finally got a few more pics for you guys. I wanted to show that it isn't 3 board, but 4. I also included a picture of the underside. Thanks so much for all the input! I hope I get some more with the new pictures...

 

I've added a picture where the stretcher was..

 

The center board is cracked, but it is 13 1/2” the side boards are about 7 1/2 inches.

 

I still haven’t found anyone who can tell me much about this table, but I know more than when I started. Thank You!!!