19TH CENTURY AMERICAN EMPIRE MAHOGANY DINING TABLE WITH SEVEN LEAVES,19th Century. Mahogany dining table in the American Empire style with seven leaves of varying widths. Base is on casters. The leaves are of various widths, including (1) 20 1/8" wide, (1) 21 1/8", (1) 16 3/8", (1) 22 7/8", (1) 13", (1) 8 1/2", and (1) 17 5/8".
Originally in the home of George Washington Doane, the second Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey, in Burlington, NJ. His home Riverside was located on the bank of the Delaware River. The original home no longer exists, but the first all-girls academic boarding school for girls which he founded next door does, and is now called the Doane Academy. The chairs were inherited by his son, William Croswell Doane, the first Episcopal Bishop of Albany, NY. This dining table was later in the historic Murdock House on New Lebanon, New York, built by the Revolutionary War Colonel Jonathan Murdock in 1800. They passed onto a home on the Potamac River in Heathsville, VA , to North Carolina and then to a home in Washington, DC. - 27 3/8" high x 52 3/4" diameter when round. Seven leaves of various widths are included. Estimate $500-600
The narrowest leaves in need of refinishing. There is slight variation in color to some of the leaves which might be corrected with colored wax. There are several areas of lightening to top associated with an iron being used on the table. Scratch to the table top on one of the ends.
