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Square mahogany case with drop leaf at each side with rounded corners; leaves supported by ash serpentine profile wings; case enclosing two dovetailed drawers with ogee-shaped mahogany veneered faces, each with two round wooden pulls; lower drawer fitted with lock; drawer bottoms not planed; square tapered pedestal support with wooden collar with concave faces; whole on cruciform-shaped flat base with four flattened ball feet.
work tables
tables (support furniture)
ash (wood)
mahogany (wood)
veneer
pine (wood)
veneering
Empire (style)
pine (wood)
Empire
Ash
Pine
Mahogany
Veneered
Mahogany Veneer
TABLE, SEWING
Top drawer signed in pencil on bottom interior, ""J.M. Barrell.""
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
30.625 x 34.063 x 18.875 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.325
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