A Fine and Rare Classical Figured Mahogany and Brass-Mounted Basin Stand, Boston, Massachusetts, Circa 1810

May be the example belonging to Misses Hosmer of Concord, New Hampshire illustrated in Frances Clay Morse, Furniture of the Olden Times, (New York, 1917), p. 268, fig. 265;

Skinner’s, Bolton, Massachusetts;

Property from an American Collection;

Christie's, New York, American Furniture, Folk Art, and Silver, January 22, 2016, sale 11985, lot 121.

This circular table is part of a group with identical drawer arrangement consisting of two short drawers above a single long drawer and legs terminating in brass paw feet supporting a molded circular platform. The group has been described as sewing, work or basin tables. Examples from this group see Christie's, New York, January 18, 2019, sale 16796, lot 1280, one in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum (see Berry B. Tracy, et al., 19th-Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), no. 13) and Israel Sack, Inc., American Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, vol. VII, p. 2044, P5343.