Property from the Collection of the Chipstone Foundation, sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund

A QUEEN ANNE INLAID AND VENEERED WALNUT DRESSING TABLE

PROBABLY RHODE ISLAND, 1725-1750

細節

A QUEEN ANNE INLAID AND VENEERED WALNUT DRESSING TABLE
Probably Rhode Island, 1725-1750
The rectangular top with bookmatched veneer and a molded edge above a conforming frame fitted with three short drawers each with line inlay over a deeply shaped skirt, with acorn pendants, on cabriole legs with pad feet
30in. wide, 33in. wide, 18½in. deep

來源

The Wilson family, Barrington, Rhode Island
John Walton, Inc., Jewett City, Connecticut

出版

Rodriquez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Milwaukee, 1984), fig. 14, pp. 32-33.

拍品專文

Despite the prolific and well identified shops of later 18th century Rhode Island, very few examples from the earlier period have been identified. Apparently singular to this example is the 'icicle' inlay on the knees of the front legs, a detail that appears in later Rhode Island forms but is otherwise unknown on early cabriole-leg forms. This table has a history in the Wilson family of Barrington, Rhode Island, a town on the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay near Providence, and on the state line with Massachusetts. Barrington became a part of Rhode Island in the 18th century, and was originally part of Plymouth Colony. Thus, this table could have been made in either state. A veneered dressing table with related skirt profile is illustrated in Jobe and Kaye, New England Furniture, The Colonial Era (Boston, 1984), plate 5.