Lot 850
  • 850

Queen Anne Inlaid Birchwood Dressing Table, Boston, Massachusetts, Circa 1740

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • wood
  • Height 29 1/2 in. by Width 34 1/2 in. by Depth 22 in.
The rectangular string-inlaid banded molded-edge top centering an inlaid-star compass over a frieze drawer above a frieze of three drawers, the central drawer concave-molded and with lunette marquetry all with string-inlay and original engraved bat-wing and bail brasses, above a shaped inlaid apron with turned drops on cabriole legs terminating in pad feet.

Provenance

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., The Celebrated Collection formed by the Late Mr. & Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood, May 13-15, 1954, sale 1521, lot 504;
Israel Sack, Inc., New York;
Sotheby's, New York, Highly Important Americana from the Stanley Paul Sax Collection, January 17, 2003, sale 7087, lot 517;
Private American Collection;
Sotheby's New York, January 19, 2003, sale 7865, lot 528.

Literature

Kelly, Austin P., The Anatomy of Antiques, p. 165;
Lockwood, Luke Vincent, Colonial Furniture in America, Vol. 1, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), 9. 250, fig. XVI.

Condition

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