Table
- Object Name:
- Table
- Object ID:
- 1957.065.03.16
- Place of Origin:
- New Castle, NH (possibly)
- Date:
- 1740-1770
- Description:
- Table. Maple. Oval top made from two pieces on a deeply scalloped apron with all four sides scalloped. Splayed legs have vase-and-ring turnings and terminate in large carved Spanish feet. Four molded stretchers.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-25.5 W-24.25 L-33.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Acquired by donor prior to 1950 when it was pictured in "the Connecticut Home of Mrs. Katherine Prentis Murphy" in Antiques (June 1950). From the collection of furnishings known as the Prentis Collection -- given by Katherine Prentis Murphy and her brother Edmund Astley Prentis, in memory of Katherine's husband, David Edward Murphy -- which formed the contents of a suite of early New England "period rooms," meant to represent the home of a prosperous New England merchant c. 1730. The rooms were exhibited at the New Hampshire Historical Society (30 Park St.), 1957-1984.
Table is possibly from New Castle, NH, or perhaps just acquired by the donor from there. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Katharine Prentis Murphy and Edmund Astley Prentis Jr., in Memory of David Edward Murphy
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