Desk Table

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1800-1825

GUSN

GUSN-10879

Description

Table. Pine, paint. Rectangular overhanging top with molded edge. hinged lid which opens to a well with three valanced pigeonholes. Straight skirt. Rests on four squared tapering legs. Red-brown and yellow crotch graining throughout.

Details

Descriptive Terms

writing tables
tables (support furniture)
graining
pine (wood)
Federal
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
Federal
TABLE, WRITING

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

27 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 18 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1083.2

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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