Lot 459
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A CLASSICAL MAHOGANY WORKTABLE

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A CLASSICAL MAHOGANY WORKTABLE
PROBABLY BOSTON, 1815-1830

The rectangular molded top with hinged rounded rectangular drop leaves over a pair of convex-fronted drawers and a conforming drawer opening to a deep work well above tapering columnar trestle supports joined by a stretcher, on shaped bases with flattened ball feet and later castors--30 1/4in. high, 36 1/4in. wide, 19in. deep

Lot Essay

By family tradition, this table belonged to Jane Appleton Pierce, the wife of President Franklin Pierce. It subsequently descended to Mary R. Pierce of Hillsborough Lower Village, New Hampshire, a great niece of President Pierce.