Elongated Arc to Half Round with Raised Center Arch

Characteristics:

• Rail: Gently scrolling elongated arc to straight away flanking a high central arch

  • Variation: Pendant at center

• Drawer Configuration: Three over two side drawers (with side drawers same size); no central drawer

• Top: Usually an ogee cornered, otherwise a rounded corner

• Case: Squared and canted and fluted

• Legs: Cabriole

• Feet: Scroll volute, squared pad, paneled pad

Known makers:

Best examples:

• PMA McNeil bequest

• Winterthur 1958.1577

• Winterthur 2012.0011

• Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, vol. 1, nos. 419, 421

• American Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, vol. 1, no. 553

• W.M. Hornor, Blue Book, pl. 59

• Yale University Art Gallery 1931.314

• Levy Galleries, New York, no. 6634

• Sotheby’s, New York, January 21—22, 2011, lot 247

• Freeman’s, Philadelphia, April 17, 2013, lot 49

• Sotheby's, New York, January 19, 2017, lot 2039

• Sotheby’s, New York, January 18—21, 2018, lot 771

• Christie’s, New York, January 17—18, 2019, lot 1273

• Freeman's, Philadelphia, November 12, 2019, lot 48

Dressing Table

New Jersey, 1720-35
Walnut and loblolly pine
29 5/8 x 33 x 20 5/8 inches
1958.1577, Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
Courtesy of Winterthur Museum

Dressing Table

Philadelphia, c. 1750-55
Walnut, tulip poplar, white pine, brass
29 1/2 × 34 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches
Formerly Philadelphia Museum of Art 1991-79-13 (deaccessioned)

Dressing Table

Philadelphia, c. 1745-1775
Mahogany, mahogany veneer, tulip poplar, Atlantic white cedar, southern yellow pine
29 3/8 × 32 7/8 × 20 3/4 inches
Yale University Art Gallery
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection 1930.2508

Characteristics:

• Rail: Elongated arc to scrolled front panel with a central node usually carved shell at the center

• Drawer Configuration: One over three drawers with central drawer large and carved

• Top: Usually squared, rarely ogee

• Case: Fluted canted corners, fluted quarter column, smooth quarter column

• Legs: Cabriole

• Feet: Ball and claw

Known makers: David Kinsey (1737—1779) and Samuel Appleton (c.1736—1780)

Best examples:

• PMA 1923-58-1

• Magazine Antiques, January 1946, 7, illus.

• W.M. Hornor, Blue Book, pls. 169, 170

• Christie’s, New York, January 23, 2009, lot 1997 (unsold)

• Sotheby’s, New York, January 20—22, 2016, lot 18

• Yale University Art Gallery, 1930.2000 and 1930.2001

High Chest
David Kinsey (1737—1779) and Samuel Appleton (c. 1736—1780), Philadelphia

Philadelphia, 1758-65
Mahogany, oak, white cedar, yellow pine, brass
8 feet 2 3/4  × 45 1/2 × 24 1/2 inches
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Purchased with the Membership Fund, 1923-58-1