Mahogany Pedestal Table From Flint & Horner

Superb and elegant early 20th century tripod pedestal table in mahogany. It rests on 3 curved and molded legs decorated on their end with a spinning top and connected by a molded ring. The central turned and baluster shaft supports the round and molded cabaret top. Quality work in very good condition made by the Flint & Horner house at the beginning of the 20th century. It was a furniture publishing company founded in 1840 in New York which manufactured furniture, decorations and rugs. They were also a very active furniture distributor between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century in the 1930s and 40s. They are notably known for having produced furniture in the Ardèche, Colonial and Victorian styles like this pedestal table. An exhibition catalog entitled "19th-Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts," presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in September 1970, states: "George C. Flint and Company, successor to the Henry Bruner firm, was first listed in the 1868 New York directory. A 23rd Street address, along with three others, was first mentioned in the 1894/1895 directory; a single 23rd Street address was listed from 1909 to 1913."