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Nightstand

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1790-1820

GUSN

GUSN-2748

Description

The table has a square top over straight skirt with single drawer that has a beaded edge, and four splayed legs with a square upper leg and turned tapering lower legs ending in button feet. Painted red. Drawer has a single brass pull.

Details

Descriptive Terms

night tables
tables (support furniture)
birch (wood)
printing (process)
Federal
Birch
Transfer Printed
Federal
TABLE, NIGHT

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

27.5 x 15.75 x 15.75 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1191

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