Table
- Object Name:
- Table
- Object ID:
- 1963.063.04
- Place of Origin:
- possibly England
- Date:
- 1740-1780
- Description:
- Tea table, oval top. Unidentified woods, possibly mahogany or walnut. Top made of two pieces of wood, pegged to stand. Wrought iron brackets on the four corners of the stand, attached with rose head nails. Wooden blocks under table screwed to table top, may be a later addition. Legs are square at top, then turned and tapered down to disc feet. Feet may have been cut down.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-26.125 W-30.5 D-24 inches
- Provenance:
- Numbered 1995.550 during 1995 inventory of collections. In 2008, the table was identified as the "small button-foot table" bequeathed by Frances Healey. The will states, "I further give and bequeath to said New Hampshire Historical Society the small button-foot table in my living room."
Descended in the Dodge-Healey family of Hampton Falls, NH. This may be the table listed as "N.H.D. table" in the inventory of Harriet Dodge's estate. "N.H.D." is probably Nathaniel Hubbard Dodge, who moved from Wenham, MA, to Hampton Falls about 1765.
Harriet Dodge was Frances Healey's grandmother. - Credit Line:
- Bequest of Frances Healey
- People:
- Dodge, Nathaniel Hubbard
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