ATTRIBUTED TO EMMONS AND ARCHIBALD, BOSTON, 1815-1825

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A CLASSICAL CARVED MAHOGANY DRESSING TABLE
Attributed to Emmons and Archibald, Boston, 1815-1825
The rectangular beveled mirror with mahogany frame and carved supports with brass mounts swiveling above a rectangular top over a single long drawer flanked by anthemion brass mounts above reeded and foliate carved column supports on box plinths with brass mounts, on turned feet with brass castors, appears to retain its original brass pulls
65½in. high, 34in. wide, 18in. high

Lot Essay

This fine dressing table is related to several examples signed by the Boston makers Thomas Emmons and George Archibald. A pier table by the firm with related gilt-brass mounts is illustrated by Page Talbott in "Boston Empire Furniture" Antiques, (May 1975 p. 878 figure 2), and a signed sideboard with very similar feet is illustrated in Boston in the Age of Neoclassicism (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York 1999) cat. no. 15).

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