Tripod base with scrolled rectangular legs. Ring, vase and ogee turned pedestal support terminating in block table support with hinged circular table top; pie-crust edge. Deep well has scene of two pagodas,distant; group of people; foreground. Alternating scrolled and cross-hatch diaper at cavetto. Legs and pedestal scrolled; linear gilt highlights.
tilt-top tables
tables (support furniture)
diaper patterns
diaper (textile material)
gilding
hardwood
japanning
lacquering
turning (shaping process)
cross-hatching
diaper patterns
diaper (textile material)
Orientalism
Hardwood
Lacquered
Turned
Japanned
Cross Hatch
Diaper
Gilded
Pie-Crust
Pagoda
Orientalism
TABLE
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
English
41.125 (H), 26.25 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.440
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