A CLASSICAL MAHOGANY WORK TABLE

NEW YORK CITY, 1810-1825

Details

A CLASSICAL MAHOGANY WORK TABLE
New York City, 1810-1825
The octagonal hinged top above a conforming case opening to a writing tablet and compartmented interior fitted with one long drawer over a tambour door above a ring and baluster-turned support over a quadripartite base, and splayed legs with acanthus leaf carving with paw feet fitted with castors
30½in. high, 23in. wide, 15in. deep

Provenance

Sold in these Rooms, June 2, 1990, lot 204

Literature

Warren et al., American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection (Houston, 1998), p. 131.

Lot Essay

Bearing a seemingly identical veneered case with tambour door, this work table is closely related to three others with urn-turned pedestal supports, two of which are in the collections of Winterthur Museum and Bayou Bend. For illustrations of these related tables, see Warren et al. (cited above); Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York, 1966), cat. 408; Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York, 1950), p. 266.

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