A Queen Anne Carved Cherrywood Dressing Table, possibly Wethersfield, Connecticut circa 1760

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, Vol. 3, (New York: Highland House Publishers Inc., 1972), p. 635

This dressing table relates to a group of scallop-top tables and chests originating in the Connecticut River Valley. This particular dressing table is part of a group of five known examples with an elaborate double-molded top. An example at Winterthur Museum, with a history in the Williams family, was purchased directly from a house in Northampton in the 1930s. Another owned by Historic Deerfield has a similar skirt profile, as does an example that descended in the Allis family of Amherst, Massachusetts. The last example of this group was offered at Sotheby’s, New York, Important American Furniture: The Collection of Scott Bartlett, February 2, 1985, lot 1022. A related Connecticut River Valley Scallop-top dressing table was sold for $387,500, Sotheby's, New York, the Mr. and Mrs. James O. Keene sale, January 16, 1997. It remains a world record for a Connecticut River Valley dressing table.

See Michael K. Brown, “Scalloped-top Furniture of the Connecticut River Valley," Antiques 117, no. 5 (May 1980), pp. 1092-1099;
Dean A. Fales, Furniture of Historic Deerfield, (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1976), p. 219;
Philip Zea, “Furniture," in The Great River: Art & Society of the Connecticut River Valley, 1635-1820, (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1985), pp. 222-223.