Description:
Dressing table in cherry and yellow-poplar with an old mahoganized finish, a form often called a beau-brummel dressing table described as a dressing box on a tall-legged stand with a lid that opens to reveal a fitted interior, usuaully with drawers beneath. These most effete dressing tables had no free surfaces and were designed only for grooming. George Hepplewhite published two of them as "Ladies Dressing Tables" in plate 73 of his "The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide" (1788). One design inspired this example with its hinged tray top, adjustable looking glass, and several interior boxes and drawers for storing cosmetics. Hepplewhite noted their "conviencies" which included "the partitions or apartments in which are adapted for combs, powders, efficiencies, pin-cushions, and other necessary equipage. The glasses rise on hinges in the front." The straight tapered legs are fitted with casters to permit moving the table to better light.
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