Work Table

Artist / Maker

Anthony Gabriel Quervelle (1789–1856)

City of Manufacture

Philadelphia

Date

1827

Dimensions

30-¾× 24 × 18 in.

Medium

Primary woods: mahogany, mahogany and rosewood veneer

Secondary woods: white pine, tulip poplar

Surface treatments: glass, brass

Labels / Inscriptions

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.”

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 nephew Manuel Eyre Griffith (1837–1910) and Mary Ellen Robinson Griffith (1836–1912); To their daughter Mary Eyre Griffith Carter (1866–1929) and George Cuthbert Carter (1865–1947) of Oatlands, Leesburg, VA; To their son Robert Griffith Carter Sr. (1901–1981) and Charlotte Baldwin Insley Carter (1913–2003) of Virginia and Maryland; To their son Conrad Powell Carter (b. 1955) and Linda Lee Brittingham Carter (b. 1960), Laurel, DE; Advertised for sale, Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 20–27, 2004; With Timothy Campbell Naylor (b. 1963), Stevenson, MD, 2004; Purchased by Schrimshers, 2007.

Publications / Exhibition History

Possibly exhibited at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, in 1831.

Smith, Robert C. “Philadelphia Empire furniture by Antoine Gabriel Quervelle,” The Magazine Antiques (September 1964 and August 1973), fig. 3.

Matching example illustrated in Boor, Allison, et al. Philadelphia Empire Furniture. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2006. pp. 263-8.