"I think there is no question that they are companions," Albert Sack, the New York dealer, said this week of the two look-alike tables.

"I always recommend them," said Albert Sack, an Americana dealer in Manhattan who is in his 80's.

Even Albert Sack, a dealer whose name is synonymous with only the finest and rarest American furniture, sees value in acquiring well-made Colonial Revival reproductions.

"It was not stripped," said Albert Sack, the dean of the Americana dealers.

At the party Albert Sack, who with his brother Robert owns and runs the gallery, named for their father, announced that the chair was for sale for $1.5 million.

"It's the supreme expression of a New England Chippendale armchair," Albert Sack said.

Albert Sack, dean of Manhattan's Americana dealers, could almost have been describing that piece: "Boston neo-Classical furniture is not flamboyant," he said.

Albert Sack, dean of the Manhattan's Americana dealers, agreed.

American jurist Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert Sacks, are considered early proponents of American purposivism.

"William and Mary high chests are very scarce," said Albert Sack, the dean of American furniture dealers in New York.