MASSACHUSETTS, 1800-1820

This circular side table is one of a group of at least four with identical drawer arrangement consisting of two short drawers above a single long drawer and legs terminating in brass hairy-paw feet supporting a molded circular platform. The group has been variously described as a sewing, work or basin tables. The present lot may be the example illustrated in Frances Clay Morse’s Furniture of the Olden Times (New York, 1917), p. 268, illus. 265, as part of the collection of Misses Hosmer of Concord, New Hampshire. It was purchased by the present owner at Skinner’s in Bolton, Massachusetts prior to 1983. Other tables in the group include: a maple veneered example in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; one advertised by Israel Sack; and one lacking reeding and with slightly different turnings on the legs that was formerly in the collection of Stanley Paul Sax (Berry B. Tracy, et al., 19th-Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts (New York, 1970), cat. no. 13; Israel Sack, Inc., American Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, vol. VII, p. 2044, P5343; Sotheby’s, New York, 16-17 January 1998, lot 445).