A CLASSICAL MAHOGANY DRESSING TABLE WITH MIRROR

MARYLAND, 1810-1830

Details

A CLASSICAL MAHOGANY DRESSING TABLE WITH MIRROR
Maryland, 1810-1830
In two parts; the upper with a rectangular mirror flanked by scrolled supports, above two short drawers; the lower case with rectangular top with outset rounded corners, over a conforming frame fitted with two short drawers above two others, on twisted reeded legs
76in. high, 41in. wide, 23in. deep

Provenance

Richard L. Remare, Batimore, Maryland, Circa 1840
Mildred Wurth Remare Curley
Philip Remare Curley
Gift to current owner, 1980

Lot Essay

According to family tradition, this dressing table was brought to "Fairview," the home near Monkton, Maryland that Antonio Remare purchased for his son, Richard L. Remare. It was brought there from Baltimore, where the Remare family owned several businesses. A very similar table is illustrated in Nutting, Furniture Treasury (New York, reprint 1972) p. 417. Nutting notes the presence of four such dressing bureaus with Maryland histories.

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