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Washstand

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

ca. 1840

GUSN

GUSN-5898

Description

Square top with conforming lower shelf with drawer; milk-white glass knob on drawer (probably of later date); machine-turned legs; painted light blue (not original paint).

Details

Descriptive Terms

washstands
turning (shaping process)
machine-made
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Turned
WASHSTAND

Inscription

""38"" stamped on drawer rest.

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

28.375 x 19.75 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph May

Accession Number

1971.989

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