Rare Queen Anne Veneered and Beaded Walnut Dressing Table

Description:

Rare Queen Anne Veneered and Beaded Walnut Dressing Table, North Shore, Massachusetts, 1730-50, the veneer covers the tabletop, the case, and drawer fronts; the top includes a wide outer border of crossbanded veneer which surrounds a narrow herringbone band, all of which encloses four burl-veneered book-matched quadrants on the top, which overhangs a case of three flush drawers also having herringbone veneer in outline and with double beaded surrounds, above a skirt profile consisting of a double "C" scroll and high cut arch flanked by smaller ogival arches repeated at the sides, on cabriole legs ending in cup-shaped feet on cushions, old refinish, (minor imperfections),ht. 30, overall wd. 33, case wd. 27 5/8, overall dp. 19 5/8, case dp. 17 1/4 in.

Provenance: Family descent from the Gould family of Newburyport, Massachusetts, to the Tyler, Pierce, and Hutchins families of the Concord, New Hampshire area.

Literature: This piece is stylistically similar to plate 31 in New England Furniture: The Colonial Era Selections from SPNEA by Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, Boston, 1984.
Estimate $25,000-35,000

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