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Dressing table
about 1790–1810
Object Place: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
Medium/Technique
Mahogany, satinwood veneer, maple veneer, pine
Dimensions
91.44 x 87.31 x 40.64 cm (36 x 34 3/8 x 16 in.)
Credit Line
Frederick Brown Fund
Accession Number33.662
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Case furniture and boxes
Catalogue Raisonné
Randall 48
DescriptionThe rectangular top has half-round front corners and a bowed central section. On top is a small mahogany compartment with a single drawer, veneered with maple, framed with a band of diagonal stringing. There is a brass floral pull. The frame is veneered on the front at each side with a panel of frame satinwood within diagonal stringing, and the bowfront drawer is similarly treated with matched flitches of maple. There are two round brass pulls on this drawer. The sides of the frame have panels of maple banded with mahogany. The round legs are carved on the stiles with acanthus leaves against a star-punched ground, below which is carved flat reeding, the lower edges of which are pointed. The reeded leg then swells and tapers to a small anklet and a bulb foot.
InscriptionsIn chalk on bottom of wide drawer: "4"
ProvenanceOwned by Brooks Reed, purchased at the sale of his gallery, Nov. 14-16, 1933 (Louis Joseph, Boston), Lot 207, described as a "McIntyre Dressing Table"; to MFA, December 1933, purchased for $575 (Accession Date: December 7, 1933).