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Table

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1725-1775

GUSN

GUSN-2985

Description

Painted maple and pine country Queen Anne side table with overhanging rectangular top above single, molded front drawer with brass bail handle and batwing backplate; round tapering legs and high pad feet; remnants of old dark brown/black finish.

Details

Descriptive Terms

tables (support furniture)
dovetail joints
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Queen Anne
Maple
Pine
Dovetail
Painted
Queen Anne
TABLE

Inscription

Written on a jelly label on the inside left of a drawer is: ""This old table/was bought in/Boscowen, NH/ about 1918.""

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

26.75 x 28 x 19.25 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1465

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