mid 18th century, original brasses, rich brown color, overhanging top with molded edge, notched corners, and molding beneath, false three drawer front over two smaller drawers, canted and fluted corners, arched and shaped apron, cabriole legs with shell carved knees and applied returns, trifid feet, 28-1/2 x 34-3/4 x 22-1/4 in.

Provenance: Dill family of Wilmington, North Carolina, 1962; Israel Sack, Inc., New York, NY; Mrs. John Creem, Port Washington, New York; Northeast Auction, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Estate of Mrs. John Creem, August 2-3, 1997, lot 664; Israel Sack Inc., New York, NY, August 1997 (accompanied by copy of receipt for $85,000); Estate of Richard and Shirley Roberts, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Literature: Israel Sack, Inc, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, Vol. I (1981), p. 219, no. 553; Deanne Levison, "Living with Antiques: A Collection on the Chesapeake Bay", The Magazine Antiques (December 2001), p. 811, pl. XIII.

Note: A related dressing table, likely from the same shop, is illustrated as a "masterpiece" in Israel Sack, Inc., American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, (1979), vol. VI, pp. 1536-37, P2689. Other similar examples include a dressing table illustrated in an advertisement for Winick & Sherman, The Magazine Antiques (October, 1926), p. 304, and a curly-maple dressing table from the collection of Herbert Lawton, sold American Art Galleries, "Rare and Valuable American Furniture, Paintings, Silver from the Collection of Herbert Lawton", April 1937, lot 379.