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Demi-lune side table with four fluted legs; capitals have hour-glass turning. Rectangular skirts painted black with gilded Chinoiserie scenes. Edges of top gilded. Top with broadly painted pagoda, ship, bridge, etc. in gold, green, reds.
servers (sideboards)
tables (support furniture)
wood (plant material)
gilding
painting (coating)
turning (shaping process)
Chinoiserie
fluting
Orientalism
Painted
Gilded
Orientalism
Chinoiserie
Pagoda
Hour-Glass Turning
TABLE
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
England
31.5 x 36.125 x 17.063 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.339
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