Details
A FEDERAL MAHOGANY WORKTABLE
BOSTON, 1815-1825
The rectangular top with rounded rectangular drop leaves above a pair of drawers and sliding pleated silk workbag flanked by tapering columnar supports with gilt-metal milled capitals and bases over inswept quadripartite bases, on turned ebonized feet decorated with brass beading--30in. high, 38in. wide (open), 17 3/4in. deep
BOSTON, 1815-1825
The rectangular top with rounded rectangular drop leaves above a pair of drawers and sliding pleated silk workbag flanked by tapering columnar supports with gilt-metal milled capitals and bases over inswept quadripartite bases, on turned ebonized feet decorated with brass beading--30in. high, 38in. wide (open), 17 3/4in. deep
Exhibited
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nineteenth Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts, (New York, 1970), fig. 72.