DRESSING OR WRITING TABLE

The configured drawer to this otherwise plain cherry table reveals its original function as a dressing or writing table.  The drawer’s interior was originally subdivided into eight compartments of different sizes.  The Marlborough-style legs are chamfered on the inside and beaded down the exterior edge. Those features, combined with the presence of large hand-wrought nails, suggest an early date of manufacture.  The table descended in the Owings and Brennan families of present-day Bath County, Kentucky.