Dressing Table

Dressing Table 

Work: 29 ½ x 36 ½  x 23 ½

Date: 1735-55. Walnut: white cedar drawer bottoms and case back board, oak drawer sides, hard pine back of full-width drawer

Provenance: Mrs. E. C. Armour, Delray Beach, Florida OR Brunk Auctions???

Where was it made: Philadelphia

Philadelphia-area dressing tables (popularly called lowboys) with cabriole legs ending in trifid feet were made over many decades, from the introductory years of the Queen Anne style in the 1730s until after the Revolutionary War. Scalloped skirt, molded top with chamfered corners and one over three drawers. Brasses replaced.