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The Riddle Family Queen Anne Carved Walnut Dresing Table Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1750

In American Furniture & Decorative Arts

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Marlborough, Massachusetts

The Riddle Family Queen Anne Carved Walnut Dresing Table Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1750 Two-board walnut top with thumb-molded edges and double-round front corners, joined with pegs and screws to overhang all four sides of case, which has strips of cove molding applied to top of front rail and returns, the front rails, sides, and pine backboard draw-joined with three pins to the stiles of four cabriole legs, which are canted and triple-reeded at the front corners, flanking facade with one long drawer over three drawers all having figured walnut fronts and original hardware, above conforming apron with spurred cyma curve pattern that recurs on sides, continuing to shaped ogee brackets of the shell-carved knees, all raised on slender scallop-carved stocking pad feet, 86cm wide, 50cm deep, 73cm high (34 1/2in wide, 20 1/4in deep, 29 1/4in high). Footnotes: Provenance Property from a Mid-Atlantic Estate. G.K.S. Bush, Washington, DC. Dr. William S. Serri (1911-95), Swedesboro, New Jersey, c. 1955. By descent to Samuel D. Riddle (1861-1951) of Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania. Literature Illustrated in William MacPherson Hornor, Jr., Blue Book of Philadelphia Furniture (Philadelphia: William MacPherson Hornor, 1935), plate 58; and in Helen Comstock, 'The Collection of Dr. William S. Serri,' Antiques 71/3 (March 1957): fig. 3, p. 254. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

The Riddle Family Queen Anne Carved Walnut Dresing Table Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1750 Two-board walnut top with thumb-molded edges and double-round front corners, joined with pegs and screws to overhang all four sides of case, which has strips of cove molding applied to top of front rail and returns, the front rails, sides, and pine backboard draw-joined with three pins to the stiles of four cabriole legs, which are canted and triple-reeded at the front corners, flanking facade with one long drawer over three drawers all having figured walnut fronts and original hardware, above conforming apron with spurred cyma curve pattern that recurs on sides, continuing to shaped ogee brackets of the shell-carved knees, all raised on slender scallop-carved stocking pad feet, 86cm wide, 50cm deep, 73cm high (34 1/2in wide, 20 1/4in deep, 29 1/4in high). Footnotes: Provenance Property from a Mid-Atlantic Estate. G.K.S. Bush, Washington, DC. Dr. William S. Serri (1911-95), Swedesboro, New Jersey, c. 1955. By descent to Samuel D. Riddle (1861-1951) of Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania. Literature Illustrated in William MacPherson Hornor, Jr., Blue Book of Philadelphia Furniture (Philadelphia: William MacPherson Hornor, 1935), plate 58; and in Helen Comstock, 'The Collection of Dr. William S. Serri,' Antiques 71/3 (March 1957): fig. 3, p. 254. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

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274 Cedar Hill St
Marlborough
Massachusetts
01752
United States
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