Description:
Dressing table supported by four cabriole legs ornamented with carved ball-and-claw feet and acanthus leaves below a case of one long and three short drawers, the central one highlighted with shell and foliate carving, all flanked by engaged fluted corner columns and an applied cornice molding beneath the top. The dressing table is significant for its high quality and the range of carved detail associated with Delaware Valley workmanship. The dressing table was owned by the John Metzler family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania., and was sold by a descendent, a Miss Draper, to antiques dealer Willoughby Farr of Edgewater, New Jersey, who sold it to the Hursts in 1935. The hardware is replaced. The drawer bottoms are cedar, the drawer runners are Atlantic white cedar, and the drawer sides are yellow-poplar. The top and side of case are mahogany. The dovetails on the drawers are made from walnut with mahogany fronts. The legs are walnut. The backboard is probably hard pine.
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