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Lot 401
Description:
An Important American Carved and Figured Oak Library Table, c. 1835, possibly Burns and Trainque, New York, molded top with inset tooled leather panel, frieze drawers on three sides with blind fretwork adornment, blocked corners, cluster column legs, molded block feet with inset casters, finely figured elements throughout, poplar secondary wood, attractive oxidized surface, height 31 in., width 55 in., depth 34 1/2 in.
- Notes: Note: A nearly identical library table attributed to Burns and Trainque is part of the furnishings of the Gothic Library period room installed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (and gifted from scholar and curator Berry B. Tracy). Interestingly, the table featured here has opposing end drawers, notched corner panels, and large brass escutcheons, all lacking in the museum's example. The refined design for this table, unusual for an American maker of this period, can be traced to the English arbiter of taste, Ackerman's Repository for the Arts, (July 1, 1827) vol. 10, pl 5 Reference: Davidson and Stillinger, The American Wing, p. 88, fig. 109; Peck, et al. Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 255-256; and the University of Glasgow website: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/teach/gothic/table%20and%20chair.html
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