A QUEEN ANNE PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY DRESSING TABLE

Displaying a classic mid-eighteenth century skirt profile favored by Newport cabinetmakers, this dressing table can be firmly attributed to the port town. It is distinguished by the paring of this front skirt design with flattened-arch side skirts and pad feet, a contrast to the more usual presence of shaped side skirts with either slipper or ball-and-claw feet. Another dressing table shares these details, as well as the presence of four cusped corners on the top and similar brasses, and was likely made in the same shop (sold by Gary R. Sullivan Antiques, 2007, see The Rhode Island Furniture Archive (RIFA) at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF3430). For related dressing tables with similar front skirt profiles and tops with four cusped corners, see RIFA, RIF691, RIF696.