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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A CLASSICAL MAHOGANY AND BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE WORK TABLE
PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1820
Details
A CLASSICAL MAHOGANY AND BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE WORK TABLE
Philadelphia, circa 1820
The maple inlaid rectangular top with outset corners above a conforming case fitted with a maple drawer with a fitted interior over another maple drawer flanked by spool-turned columns above a lyre-form support with ormolu mounts over an ormolu mounted quatrefoil base issuing sabre legs with brass paw cuffs.
A note affixed to the interior of the fitted drawer describes the history of this table:
"This writing table was bought for Aunt Elizabeth O'Brien when she was married January 16th 1820. Several years after her marriage the table was sold at public sale and bought by Dr. Isaac Hisler (?) for his wife Anne Shelly (?) in whose possession it remained until her death when my father (William H. Clymer) bought it for mother and she left it to me at her death. Valeria E. Clymer Hill." A related table attributed to Michael Bouvier is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
29½in. high, 19½in. wide, 15in. deep
A Photographic image of the original owner will accompany this lot.
Philadelphia, circa 1820
The maple inlaid rectangular top with outset corners above a conforming case fitted with a maple drawer with a fitted interior over another maple drawer flanked by spool-turned columns above a lyre-form support with ormolu mounts over an ormolu mounted quatrefoil base issuing sabre legs with brass paw cuffs.
A note affixed to the interior of the fitted drawer describes the history of this table:
"This writing table was bought for Aunt Elizabeth O'Brien when she was married January 16th 1820. Several years after her marriage the table was sold at public sale and bought by Dr. Isaac Hisler (?) for his wife Anne Shelly (?) in whose possession it remained until her death when my father (William H. Clymer) bought it for mother and she left it to me at her death. Valeria E. Clymer Hill." A related table attributed to Michael Bouvier is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
29½in. high, 19½in. wide, 15in. deep
A Photographic image of the original owner will accompany this lot.
Provenance
Benjamin Ginsburg, 1983