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.
writing tables
tables (support furniture)
graining
pine (wood)
Federal
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
Federal
TABLE, WRITING
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
27 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 18 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1083.2
Massachusetts (United States)
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