R. Jorgensen Antiques

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Wonderful and very rare Vermont painted dressing table with unusual drawer arrangement. Superb legs with full height. Brass is not original but it’s of the period and exactly fits the marks of the original. This table is of the best form and has the original grayish white paint with apple green highlighting and eight fabulous stenciled and hand painted shells.
On the back of the drawer box is a pencil inscription that reads: “Chenry (or ? - first name is very hard to read) H Kenny (or Kenry) Groton Vermont”
32 1/4 inches to working surface.
Construction details (See research notes)

Reference: Construction details of dressing table:

• Back, front and sides are white pine.

• All glue blocks are original and white pine.

• All drawer fonts are pine

• large top is birch.

• Legs appear to be maple (only the top back of the left rear leg isn’t painted and it is close grained, hard and curly)

• All drawers secondary wood is either white wood (poplar, bass, linden)
or soft maple.

• The drawer box is through dovetailed on the sides (visible above and below
the moldings) and constructed of the same wood as the drawer secondary.

• Cockbeading around the large drawer is applied (in pine) with nails.

• Cockbeading around the two graduated small drawers is scratch carved.

• Front and rear glue blocks have pulled away from vertical sufaces.

• All nails are the same throughout:
1) Drawer bottoms
2) "Box" to base top
3) Lower drawer cockbeading
4) Through the back dovetail of the lower drawer supports
5) Back of "box"