Important Duncan Phyfe sofa table Ca. 1825-1835 in mahogany resting on a bracketed trestle base with turned feet inset with A. Thorpe casters. ( Paper Label In Drawer Reads, This Table Was Owned By Dr. James Clark, George Washington Physician and Friend. The highly figured oblong top with short drop-leaves above a shallow case base having drawers one on either side with a sham drawer on a bracket-shaped leaf supports terminating in rimmed disks that swing flush with the drawers on each side and end and fold flush with the case when the leaves are down, connected to each other by a plain flat-sided stretcher. The legs extending out perpendicular to the supports, with a conforming blocked and molded foot, raised on recessed casters. Secondary wood: Ash and White Pine. The A. Thorpe castors with a star stamped on the table, this links it with Phyfe workshop. Other examples in metropolitan museum of art have these castors. included in add for same. French restoration style which was in vogue during the 1820's in New York. Condition: good to very good; This table survives in an almost perfect state of preservation with restoration only to tiny veneer chips along the bottom edges of the stretcher and on drawer. Both drop side do not drop straight having slight flair outward due to shrinkage of top surface. Color has been restored with shellac in the manner of the period. H. 30'' W. closed 40''-open 50'' D. 26''.