Work Table

Artist / Maker

Anthony Gabriel Quervelle (1789–1856)

City of Manufacture

Philadelphia

Date

1827

Dimensions

30-3/4 x 24 x 18 in.

Medium

Primary woods: mahogany, mahogany and rosewood veneer

Secondary woods: tulip poplar, white pine

Surface treatments: glass (replaced; two originals in drawer), brass

Labels / Inscriptions

Label: Pasted at the back of the top drawers: “A. G. QUERVELLE / United States / Fashionable / CABINET WAREHOUSE / NO 126 / South Second Street / Below Dock / PHILADELPHIA / Delmes Sculpt.”

Inscription: On bottom of second drawer: “A L G / R G R / –90.”

Provenance

Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (1756–1833) and Maria Thong Patterson Griffith (1771–1854), Philadelphia; To their daughter Anne Catherine Griffith Coleman (1802–1886) and Edward Coleman (1792–1841) [no issue]; To their niece Annie Louisa Griffith (1833–1882); To her niece Anne Louise Griffith (1867–1957); To her niece Elizabeth Wilmer Griffith Page (1897–1994) and Edward Crozer Page (1891–1963). [Possibly to their grandson Francis James Carey III (b. 1950), Ambler, PA;] Barbara Marie di Giulio Boor (b. 1955) and John William Boor, MD (1947–2007); Their sale, Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Nov. 21, 2015, lot 50; Purchased by Schrimshers, 2015.