Lot 47
  • 47

A Rare Queen Anne Carved Maple Dressing Table, Connecticut circa 1745

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Height 29 ¼ in. by Width 33 ¾ in. by Depth 22 in.
Appears to retain its original hardware; knee returns and drops restored.

Provenance

Discovering in a yard sale in the 1920's painted white.

Condition

Refinished; secondary wood is white pine; top has been cut and reset; knee returns restored.
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Catalogue Note

This dressing table relates directly to an example in the Mabel Brady Garvan Collections (see Gerald Ward, American Case Furniture, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988), no.102, p. 108).  Both have identically carved feet and central skirt profile.  Remnants of black paint on the underside of the frame and top and sides of drawers may indicate that the table was once japanned.