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<p>[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 366105, member: 5066"]Anything's possible, it's a country made piece mid 19th century i would guess. Splay leg tables are a very difficult build, particularly if a drawer is involved, many angles to consider and that takes time to get it right.</p><p>One of the neat things about American furniture is, it had a very quirky style in how it adapted european furniture designs. There were no rules, no guilds, no unions to interfere in furniture making.</p><p>Sometimes this quirkiness produced masterpieces, often not but take block front chests for example. Block fronts are as american as apple pie and had been around for decades when a shop in Newport RI operated by the Townsend/Goddard clan of cabinetmakers decided to put carved shells on them and BAM! a masterpiece was born.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 366105, member: 5066"]Anything's possible, it's a country made piece mid 19th century i would guess. Splay leg tables are a very difficult build, particularly if a drawer is involved, many angles to consider and that takes time to get it right. One of the neat things about American furniture is, it had a very quirky style in how it adapted european furniture designs. There were no rules, no guilds, no unions to interfere in furniture making. Sometimes this quirkiness produced masterpieces, often not but take block front chests for example. Block fronts are as american as apple pie and had been around for decades when a shop in Newport RI operated by the Townsend/Goddard clan of cabinetmakers decided to put carved shells on them and BAM! a masterpiece was born.[/QUOTE]
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