Dressing table

American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 729

In early-nineteenth-century cabinetmaking parlance, this “lady’s dressing table” features a “plain arch in sweep front”—a more expensive elaboration on the basic, straight-front model with a single long drawer. According to the English furniture designer George Hepplewhite, the drawers of dressing tables were partitioned to accommodate “combs, powders, essences, pin-cushions, and other necessary equipage.”

Dressing table, Mahogany, birch veneer, basswood with white pine, American

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Dressing table, Mahogany, birch veneer, basswood with white pine, American
Dressing table, Mahogany, birch veneer, basswood with white pine, American
Dressing table, Mahogany, birch veneer, basswood with white pine, American
Dressing table, Mahogany, birch veneer, basswood with white pine, American

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