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Nightstand

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1800-1820

GUSN

GUSN-2709

Description

A red-painted maple and pine Hepplewhite bedside table. It has an overhanging square top above a chamfered single drawer with a wood knob handle. It has a straight side and square tapering legs that are slightly splayed. It is small and low.

Details

Descriptive Terms

night tables
tables (support furniture)
maple (wood)
nailing
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Maple
Pine
Painted
Nailed
TABLE, NIGHT

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

23.5 x 15.625 x 16 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.934

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