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Breakfast Table

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1800-1810

GUSN

GUSN-50274

Description

Pembroke or Breakfast Table. Cherry, maple, chestnut, pine secondary wood. Concealed drawer; serpentine drop leaves, bowed ends of top. Rests on tapered legs with string inlay.

Details

Descriptive Terms

breakfast tables
tables (support furniture)
cherry (wood)
chestnut (wood)
inlay (process)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Federal
Table
Table, Breakfast
Table, Breakfast

Maker

Possibly Nayes, Samuel S. (Maker)
Possibly Maynard, Micajah, 1771-1807 (Maker)

Location of Origin

Wayland, MA, USA

Dimensions

27 7/8 x 32 x 19 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Edwin Buckingham Sears

Accession Number

1983.39

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)
probably

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