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Dining Table

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1810-1830

GUSN

GUSN-3263

Description

An overhanging rectangular top with breadboard ends on a straight apron; turned and tapering legs; two rectangular leaves; each leaf has a pair of projecting elements on the underside that fit into holes in the table apron; painted red.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dining tables
tables (support furniture)
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
turning (shaping process)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Maple
Turned
Painted
TABLE, DINING

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

28 x 25 x 51 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1047

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