Lot Essay
An almost identical sewing table is illustrated in Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol 1, brochure 11, May 1965, p. 257, No. 639.
MASSACHUSETTS, 1790-1810
Details
A FEDERAL MAHOGANY WORK TABLE
Massachusetts, 1790-1810
The octagonal top with outset rounded corners, molded rondels, and reeded edge above a case fitted with a cockbeaded drawer over a cockbeaded slide flanked by water leaf-carved engaged colonettes, on tapering ring-turned and reeded legs with compressed ball feet
29in. high, 20in. wide, 16in. deep
Massachusetts, 1790-1810
The octagonal top with outset rounded corners, molded rondels, and reeded edge above a case fitted with a cockbeaded drawer over a cockbeaded slide flanked by water leaf-carved engaged colonettes, on tapering ring-turned and reeded legs with compressed ball feet
29in. high, 20in. wide, 16in. deep
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Hansen, Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Literature
Lita Solis-Cohen, "Living with antiques: The Bryn Mawr home of Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Dawson Coleman," Antiques, (April 1966), p. 574.