An American Queen Anne Mahogany Lowboy or Dressing Table

1764

AN AMERICAN QUEEN ANNE MAHOGANY LOWBOY OR DRESSING TABLE BY BENJAMIN BAKER (Newport, 1750-1760). The piece has a rectangular top with a molded edge over a scalloped case containing one long drawer above two small drawers flanking a decorative concave shell carving bearing eleven lobes. The drawers have their original brass handles and mounts. The small drawer on the left bearing a later and slightly larger brass handle and mount. The whole is raised on four cabriole legs terminating in pad feet.

Rhode Island Furniture Archive Number: RIF981

American, Newport

Mahogany (primary); chestnut (all secondary wood)

31" x 35" x 20"

Purchased by The Preservation Society of Newport County, 1959.

PSNC.1707

Carpenter, Ralph E. Jr. "The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island 1640-1820" The Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954 p. 89; pl. 61.

Antiques Magazine June 1937 Pg. 308-310