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Country tea table. Rectangular gallery (dish top) surrounded by a raised molding. The shaped skirt has centered pendants. The round legs taper down to pad/button feet. The top is marbleized in black on greenish-grey. The base is a stained curly maple. The finish appears to be original.
tea tables (tables)
tables (support furniture)
maple (wood)
graining
staining
maple (wood)
Queen Anne
Maple
Stained
Painted
Queen Anne
TABLE, TEA
On a label on the underside of the table skirt, in NFL's script in ink, is: From Myrta (Little) Davies Family/Hampstead, N.H./Coll. Mr. and Mrs. B.K. Little/Brookline - Mass. On a typed jelly jar label, near the other label read: Table descended to Myrta (Little) Davies of Hampstead, N.H. from her/Little ancestors in/Newburyport. Her great-grand/ father was Tristam /Coffin.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
26.5 x 30 x 24 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.453
New Hampshire (United States)
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