$425
Estimate: $500 - $800
American Furniture, Decorative & Folk Art
Auction: April 19, 2016 11:00:00 AM EDT
The circular dished top on turned support with urn at base.
H: 28 3/4 in. Diam: 20 1/4 in.Provenance: Property Deaccessioned by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.
Presented in 1880 by Mary Thurston Fauntleroy Barnes (Mrs. Joseph K. Barnes, 1824-1912), Vice Regent for the District of Columbia.
A popular Washington, D.C. hostess during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Mary T. Fauntleroy was the wife of Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes. Dr. Barnes was the attending physician at the deathbed of President Abraham Lincoln and directed the autopsy.