Details
A Regency mahogany drop-leaf work table
The rectangular hinged top with a reeded edge, containing a fitted drawer to one end with a dummy drawer below, with two drawers to the other side, on ring-turned and reeded tapering legs joined by turned cross stretchers and terminating in brass caps and castors, bearing a label Barritt's Cabinet and Turning Manufactory and Toy Warehouse Headvale, Colchester. Cutlery, and Juvenile Books, in Great Variety
30in. (76cm.) wide extended, 29¼in. (74.5cm.) high, 21in. (53.5cm.) deep
The rectangular hinged top with a reeded edge, containing a fitted drawer to one end with a dummy drawer below, with two drawers to the other side, on ring-turned and reeded tapering legs joined by turned cross stretchers and terminating in brass caps and castors, bearing a label Barritt's Cabinet and Turning Manufactory and Toy Warehouse Headvale, Colchester. Cutlery, and Juvenile Books, in Great Variety
30in. (76cm.) wide extended, 29¼in. (74.5cm.) high, 21in. (53.5cm.) deep
Literature
A James Barritt of Head Gate (sic) Colchester, Essex, Turner and Cabinet Maker (1823-39) is listed in The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Maney, 1986.