A table with a scrubbed, rectangular top with two "D" shaped leaves, that forms a round top when open. It has a straight skirt with a beaded edge and is raised on four molded straight square legs with conforming gate legs. The legs are joined by molded square stretchers. The base in brown and black paint- not original, although the remains of previous layers are underneath it.
gate-leg tables
tables (support furniture)
maple (wood)
Chippendale
maple (wood)
Table
Maple
Chippendale
Table
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
27 (H), 39 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.460
New Hampshire (United States)
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