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Comfort Texas Walnut Table

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Comfort Texas Walnut Table
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Comfort area Kendall. Turned legs have hand cut Threads. Top has molded edge middle to late 19th century handmade Texas walnut table measures 35-1/2" in diameter and 28-1/2" high. Few examples of period writing tables have a round top; furthermore, turned legs were not common.

The most prominent feature of the table is the four hand turned legs. They legs are threaded (at the top) and are attached to the table with corresponding tapped corner blocks, rather than containing a mortised for the skirt's tenon. The legs are composed of a basal vase with two rings above and tapers out to a ring-ball-ring set of turnings. Oddly, the skirt is mitered at the corners and contains an ovolo molded edge. Between the skirt and turned legs exists molded ½" thick "plate," which may have been added subsequent to construction to increase the height of the table.

The top has an ogee moulded edge and is composed of five 1" thick planks and is attached to the skirt with eight screws. The maker has struck roman numerals (with chisel) onto the underside of the table top and skirt. This method served as a key to how the top was to be joined together and affixed to the skirt.


Mrs. Schatzie Crouch acquired the table in Comfort, Texas and may have been made in Gillespie County by any number of German immigrant cabinet makers residing in an around Fredericksburg in the last half of the 19th century. Mr. James Foutch purchased it from her in 2001 and had it refinished. GBG purchased the table at the Burley Auction Group's January 2009 Sale.