| 31. | The first piece to go was a Philadelphia tea table with a painted cast-iron top that belonged to William duPont.
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| 32. | They made document boxes, spice boxes, chests for textiles, high chests, dressing tables, tea tables and, eventually, tall case clocks.
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| 33. | In the furniture business, the term " occasional tables " includes lamp tables, tea tables, console tables, even cocktail tables.
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| 34. | One treasure in the sale is a small Chippendale mahogany tray-top tea table, probably made in Boston in about 1770.
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| 35. | She removes it and places it on the tea table before her, demonstrating how it stands upright on its own.
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| 36. | "I think the tea table is a stellar thing, whether it is related to Cadwalader or not, " he said.
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| 37. | Two people might sit on the sides with a tea table in the middle, a scene you see in Tang paintings.
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| 38. | Christie's top lot last Friday was the Biddle-Cadwalader Chippendale mahogany pie-crust tea table, which sold for $ 1 . 4 million.
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| 39. | It could fit right in beside a sofa or bed, or even as a tea table in front of the settee.
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| 40. | At a Christie's sale in 1986 he paid $ 1 million for a Philadelphia tea table, an auction record for Americana.
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