Lot Essay
A related example is illustrated in Nancy McClelland Duncan Phyfe and The English Regency (New York, 1939)p. 126, pl. 110. Also a similiar piece is in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
Details
A FEDERAL MAHOGANY TWO-DRAWER STAND
NEW YORK, 1810-1815
The rectangular top with front outset rounded corners above a conforming case fitted with two short drawers flanked by ring-turned outset reeded colonettes, on ring-turned and reeded legs joined by a shaped medial shelf, on tapering ring-and-baluster turned feet with brass socket castors--31¼in. high, 23¼in. wide, 18in. deep
NEW YORK, 1810-1815
The rectangular top with front outset rounded corners above a conforming case fitted with two short drawers flanked by ring-turned outset reeded colonettes, on ring-turned and reeded legs joined by a shaped medial shelf, on tapering ring-and-baluster turned feet with brass socket castors--31¼in. high, 23¼in. wide, 18in. deep
Provenance
Berry Tracy, 1982
Literature
Allison M. Eckardt, "Living with Antiques: A collection of American neoclassical furnishings on the East Coast," The Magazine Antiques (May, 1987)p. 863, pl. VIII.