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Drop-leaf Table

Date

ca. 1821

GUSN

GUSN-44440

Description

Drop-Leaf Table. Mahogany, yellow pine, white pine, brass casters. Rectangular with round-cornered leaves. Rests on reeded and turned legs on casters.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dining tables
dropleaf tables
tables (support furniture)
mahogany (wood)
Norway spruce (wood)
yellow pine (wood, general)
Federal
Mahogany
Pine
Federal
TABLE, DINING

Inscription

Label on underside of top: HOUSE FURNITURE/OF THE MOST FASHIONABLE KIND, MADE, SOLD,/AND EXCHANGED, BY/SAMUEL S. NOYSE, CABINETMAKER,/EAST SUDBURY, NE. BY THE CAUSEWAY:[ ]

Additional Identification Number

11.1983

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

29 5/8 x 41 1/2 x 17 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)

Accession Number

1987.1438

Reference Notes

Wesselman, Linda J. and Martha D. Hamilton. Earliest Recollections: Furnishings from the Family of Edwin B. Sears. Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1984.

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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