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Lot 100 : 18TH C. CONNECTICUT QUEEN ANNE CHERRY DRESSING TABLE

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18TH C. CONNECTICUT QUEEN ANNE CHERRY DRESSING TABLE
1740-1800, probably Wethersfield, boldly shaped, scalloped-top above one long narrow and three short drawers, the center one with fan carving; shaped skirt; cabriole legs ending in pad feet, 31.5"h; case 30.5"w, 18"d; top 38"w, 24.5"d
From the home of a well-respected collector of Americana in the Boston area. Prov.: G.W.Samaha Antiques, Milan, Ohio.
The cherry highboy, lot 104, and this dressing table most likely were made by same hand.
Scalloped tops are one of the most distinctive traits developed in the Connecticut valley, particularly the area around Wethersfield. A very similar example sold at Sotheby's 'Important Americana', January 16, 1997, lot 203. See another example in
Connecticut Furniture /Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, An Exhibition Organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1967, pg. 103. Also Connecticut Valley Furniture, Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1890, Thomas and Alice Kugelman with Robert Lionetti, pgs. 66-67.
The drawers were never drilled for brasses.
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
Realized: $33,000 - Excluding Buyer's Premium


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