Lot Essay
For a similar table with a double lyre base labeled by Michael Allison, see Nancy McClelland, Duncan Phyfe and the English Regency, 1795-1830, (New York, 1939), p. 195, pl. 179.
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A FEDERAL BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY WRITING TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO MICHAEL ALLISON, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1820
The hinged rectangular crossbanded top opening to an elaborately fitted interior with a felt-lined hinged adjustable writing surface, small copartemnts and sand and ink bottle centered by a hinged panel and further compartments lifting above paper-lined wells over a small drawer fitted with spools and compartments above geometric brass banding and a kneehole flanked by reeding over baluster and ring-turned foliate-carved trestle supports joined by a reeded and foliate stretcher, on downswept legs carved with acanthus and hairy paw feet with castors--30 1/4in. high, 27 3/4in. wide, 16 1/2in. deep
ATTRIBUTED TO MICHAEL ALLISON, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1820
The hinged rectangular crossbanded top opening to an elaborately fitted interior with a felt-lined hinged adjustable writing surface, small copartemnts and sand and ink bottle centered by a hinged panel and further compartments lifting above paper-lined wells over a small drawer fitted with spools and compartments above geometric brass banding and a kneehole flanked by reeding over baluster and ring-turned foliate-carved trestle supports joined by a reeded and foliate stretcher, on downswept legs carved with acanthus and hairy paw feet with castors--30 1/4in. high, 27 3/4in. wide, 16 1/2in. deep