Lady's dressing table

The design of this lady's cabinet dressing table is modeled closely on Plate 49 of Thomas Sheraton's "Cabinet Maker's and Upholsterer's Drawing Book" (London, 1793). In describing the furniture form, Sheraton noted that it "contains every requisite for a lady to dress at. . . . " The dressing table may have been made as a wedding present for Margaret Maria Livingston (1783-1818), the daughter of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston.