Dressing Table

ca.1770

A four-shell kneehole dressing table, with molded top above a case incorporating an upper drawer fitted with a concave and flanked by convex lobed shells, the knee hole section incorporating two banks of three block fronted drawers, enclosing a cupboard door carved with a simple shell with nine straight lobes. The ogival molding of the base continues the line of the blocking and serves as a transition to the ogee bracket feet, with C-scrolled marginal inner borders.

American, Rhode Island

mahogany, secondary woods: chestnut, pine, yellow poplaw, brass

Overall: 32 1/2 x 36 x 18 1/2 in. (82.6 x 91.4 x 47 cm)

Purchased at Samuel F. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, June 8, 1971

1999.532