A CLASSICAL STENCILLED ROSEWOOD WORK TABLE

NEW YORK CITY, 1820-1830

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A CLASSICAL STENCILLED ROSEWOOD WORK TABLE
New York City, 1820-1830
The rectangular top with scrolling gilt-flourishes and detailing above a conforming case fitted with one long compartmented drawer with writing tablet embellished with gilt-stencilled fruit and foliage over a deep drawer with gilt stencilled detailing, flanked by ring-turned tapering engaged colonettes with gilt detailing above a ring and vasiform-turned pedestal with gilt-foliate decoration over a quadripartite base with splayed legs and paw feet fitted with castors and scrolled acanthus leaf carving, the drawer with later handwritten label, This table owned by Mary B. Gardiner of Gardiner's Island born Dec 4 1809 died Feb 22 1833
31in. high, 21½in. wide, 19½in. deep

Lot Essay

A late 19th-century label reveals a Mary B. Gardiner of Gardiner's Island owned this table. Recorded in Jeannette Edwards Rattray, East Hampton History, Including Genealogies of Early Families (Garden City, New York, 1953), Mary Brainerd Gardiner (1809-1833) was the daughter of John Lyon Gardiner (1770-1816) and Sarah Griswold (1781-1863) and died unmarried.

For similar examples see Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (Austin, 1989), p. 108; John Banks made a similar table for General Lafayette in 1825, see McClelland, Duncan Phyfe and the English Regency (New York, 1939), p. 206, pl.190.

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