Table

Object Name:

Table

Object ID:

1940.014.01

Place of Origin:

Essex County, MA, or southeastern NH

Date:

1760-1780

Description:

Table. Rectangular. Primary wood: mahogany; Secondary wood:birch, hickory, and pine. Rectangular leaves, hinged onto the long sides of the top, are each supported by a swinging leg. Each end rail has a scalloped lower edge. Four cabriole legs with sharp knees and abrupt transition to rounded lower leg, leaving visible break in outline; no knee brackets; claw and ball feet. Unopened top is only 18 inches deep. Long sides of frame are double walled, outer rails being birch and inner ones pine. On underside of top at inner corners of frame are four cleats to which the stationary rails are doweled. Hand-wrought nails used in construction. One large and three small holes in bottom of each foot, indicating former use of casters.

Material:

Wood
Mahogany
Iron

Dimensions:

H-27.375 W-47.5 D-46.875 inches

Provenance:

Apparently used at donor's farm in Center Harbor, NH, and presumed to have descended in his family, at least one branch of which (Hawkins) had been in Center Harbor since the 1790s. At the time this table was made, all of the donor's ancestors that have been traced lived either in southeastern NH (and possibly nearby Maine) or had recently moved from there to the Winnipesaukee region.

Credit Line:

Gift of Hosea Canney

People:

Hawkins, Canney, Hosea (1863-1941)