Table
- Object Name:
- Table
- Object ID:
- 1933.001.09
- Date:
- circa 1820
- Description:
- Work Table. Birch, maple and white pine. Top portion of legs, in the form of reeded colonnettes, are engaged at the corners. Top has circular projections at corners above the colonnettes. All four sides of top bowed. One drawer, which extends full width at front. Drawer has two wooden knobs and is divided inside, with eight small compartments around three sides of a large compartment at center back. Four turned legs each with a series of annulets and three reel turnings at top and a ring-and-reel turned anklet above bulbous foot, which is encircled by a pair of decorative grooves at its widest point. Drawer front veneered with bird's-eye maple. Drawer knobs mahogany. Remainder of primary wood birch.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-27.5 W-2.875 D-18 inches
- Provenance:
- From the home of the donor's great-grandfather, John Bradley (1743-1815) and Hannah Ayer Bradley (b. 1751) of Concord, NH. The house was built by Bradley in 1769 and torn down by the donor in 1912.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Margaret H. Jewell
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