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Sewing Table

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Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1915-1920

GUSN

GUSN-57895

Description

Sewing table. Maple top and sides. Maple drawer fronts veneered on white pine secondary wood. Square top with turreted corners. Narrow strips of light and dark wood form inlaid border. Two drawers joined with wire nails. Mahogany veneer on drawer dividers and top and bottom front rail. Underside of top bears modern planer marks.

Details

Descriptive Terms

work tables
pine (wood)
Colonial Revival
Table
Table, Work
Table, Sewing
Table, Sewing

Associated Building

Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

28 1/2 x 16 1/4 x 16 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann

Accession Number

1942.1753

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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