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Dressing Table

Date

1868-1899

GUSN

GUSN-5656

Description

Dressing or toilet table. Spruce legs with white pine rails and top. Overhanging top with shaped edges. Top has serpentine front and sides and straight back. Rectangular apron with molded edge. Rests on rectangular legs with beaded outer edge. Painted white.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dressing tables
case furniture
tables (support furniture)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
TABLE, DRESSING

Associated Building

Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

31 1/2 x 36 5/16 x 21 3/16 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph May

Accession Number

1971.928

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