The Miller-Ellicott Family Very Fine and Rare Turned and Joined Walnut Gateleg TablePhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaCirca 1730 Appears to retain its original surface and its wrought iron butterfly hinges.Height 30 in. by Width 72 1/2 in. by Depth 59 7/8 in.; Width 25 1/4 in. (closed)ProvenanceResided in the William Miller house (c. 1731), Avondale near Modia, Pennsylvania; John Miller (1665-1714) who married Mary Anne Agnew Miller (1670-1730) in 1696. They arrived in Philadelphia in 1709; William Miller (1698-1768) who married Margaret Ann Cane-Emlen (1705–1794) in 1731; To William Miller Jr. (1737-1781) and Hannah Miller (1755-1798), New Garden, Chester County, Pennsylvania; To Thomas Ellicott (1777-1859), who married Mary Miller (1780-1855) in 1806. The Miller house was sold after their death in circa 1860; To Thomas Poultney Ellicott (1830-1908), who married Caroline MacKey Allen (1832-1889) in 1855, of Baltimore, Maryland; To his grandson, Thomas A. Ellicott (1856-1922), son of Francis A. and Mary Handy Ellicott; To his mother Mary Handy Ellicott at his death; Purchased by her cousin, Charles Ellis Ellicott (1861-1942) who married Madeleine Romaine Le Moyne (1856-1945) in 1890; To his grandson Charles Ellis Ellicott III, M.D. (1923-2008) of Lutherville, Maryland, who sold it to Bill Du Pont in 1986.LiteratureEdgar G. Miller Jr., American Antique Furniture: A Book for Amateurs, (Baltimore, MD: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1937), no. 1296, p. 704.Catalogue noteThis walnut gateleg table was among the furnishings of the William Miller house in Avondale, Chester County, Pennsylvania which was built by William Miller (1698-1768) and his wife Margaret Ann Cane-Emlen (1705-1794) soon after their marriage in 1731.1 This table descended through multiple generations of the Miller and Ellicott branches of their family for 255 years and remained in the Miller house until it was sold in circa 1860 after the deaths of Thomas (1777-1859) and Mary (Miller) Ellicott (1780-1855). At that time, the table descended to Thomas P. Ellicott (1830-1908) of Baltimore and then through his family until 1986, when Charles Ellis Ellicott, M.D. (1923-2008) sold it to Bill Du Pont. This sale represents the first time that this gateleg table has ever been offered for public sale since it was made in Philadelphia in circa 1730. Measuring six feet wide when opened, this gateleg table is of a rare exceptional size. It utilizes rivets to attach the hinges to the large and thick top, as extra reinforcement. Rivets extend through the hinges and partially through the table top, where their heads are concealed with face-grain plugs. Riveted hinges are found in Germanic influenced furniture made in Pennsylvania. This attachment method has Dutch precedent and also appears regularly on New York tables with pivot legs and draw bars. Peter M. Kenny discusses and illustrates the use of riveted hinges in his article “Flat Gates, Draw Bars, Twists, and Urns: New York’s Distinctive, Early Baroque Oval Tables with Falling Leaves” published in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover and London: The Chipstone Foundation and Distributed by the University Press of New England, 1994): fig. 10, p. 112, fig. 33, p. 128. 1 The Miller house is illustrated at https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.pa0233.photos/.
The Miller-Ellicott Family Very Fine and Rare Turned and Joined Walnut Gateleg TablePhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaCirca 1730 Appears to retain its original surface and its wrought iron butterfly hinges.Height 30 in. by Width 72 1/2 in. by Depth 59 7/8 in.; Width 25 1/4 in. (closed)ProvenanceResided in the William Miller house (c. 1731), Avondale near Modia, Pennsylvania; John Miller (1665-1714) who married Mary Anne Agnew Miller (1670-1730) in 1696. They arrived in Philadelphia in 1709; William Miller (1698-1768) who married Margaret Ann Cane-Emlen (1705–1794) in 1731; To William Miller Jr. (1737-1781) and Hannah Miller (1755-1798), New Garden, Chester County, Pennsylvania; To Thomas Ellicott (1777-1859), who married Mary Miller (1780-1855) in 1806. The Miller house was sold after their death in circa 1860; To Thomas Poultney Ellicott (1830-1908), who married Caroline MacKey Allen (1832-1889) in 1855, of Baltimore, Maryland; To his grandson, Thomas A. Ellicott (1856-1922), son of Francis A. and Mary Handy Ellicott; To his mother Mary Handy Ellicott at his death; Purchased by her cousin, Charles Ellis Ellicott (1861-1942) who married Madeleine Romaine Le Moyne (1856-1945) in 1890; To his grandson Charles Ellis Ellicott III, M.D. (1923-2008) of Lutherville, Maryland, who sold it to Bill Du Pont in 1986.LiteratureEdgar G. Miller Jr., American Antique Furniture: A Book for Amateurs, (Baltimore, MD: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1937), no. 1296, p. 704.Catalogue noteThis walnut gateleg table was among the furnishings of the William Miller house in Avondale, Chester County, Pennsylvania which was built by William Miller (1698-1768) and his wife Margaret Ann Cane-Emlen (1705-1794) soon after their marriage in 1731.1 This table descended through multiple generations of the Miller and Ellicott branches of their family for 255 years and remained in the Miller house until it was sold in circa 1860 after the deaths of Thomas (1777-1859) and Mary (Miller) Ellicott (1780-1855). At that time, the table descended to Thomas P. Ellicott (1830-1908) of Baltimore and then through his family until 1986, when Charles Ellis Ellicott, M.D. (1923-2008) sold it to Bill Du Pont. This sale represents the first time that this gateleg table has ever been offered for public sale since it was made in Philadelphia in circa 1730. Measuring six feet wide when opened, this gateleg table is of a rare exceptional size. It utilizes rivets to attach the hinges to the large and thick top, as extra reinforcement. Rivets extend through the hinges and partially through the table top, where their heads are concealed with face-grain plugs. Riveted hinges are found in Germanic influenced furniture made in Pennsylvania. This attachment method has Dutch precedent and also appears regularly on New York tables with pivot legs and draw bars. Peter M. Kenny discusses and illustrates the use of riveted hinges in his article “Flat Gates, Draw Bars, Twists, and Urns: New York’s Distinctive, Early Baroque Oval Tables with Falling Leaves” published in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover and London: The Chipstone Foundation and Distributed by the University Press of New England, 1994): fig. 10, p. 112, fig. 33, p. 128. 1 The Miller house is illustrated at https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.pa0233.photos/.
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