Table, Dressing
- Object Name:
- Table, Dressing
- Object ID:
- 1984.048
- Creator:
- Brown, Thomas (1796-1866)
Cabinetmaker - Place of Origin:
- Newmarket, NH
- Date:
- 1831
- Description:
- Dressing Table. Made by Thomas Brown (1796-1866), Newmarket, NH; 1831. Three drawer, painted dressing table with turned legs. Two flat-front small drawers side by side above rounded-front lower drawer. Removable top section with two additional rounded-front drawers side by side. White paint in poor condition over earlier painted decoration. Six brass drawer handles. Printed paper label on backboard: "CHAIR FACTORY. / The subscriber having / his Cabinet Shop, at Lamp- / rey River, is now enabled / to sell CHAIRS as cheap / as can be purchased in the / State, and probably cheap-/ er. They are made in a / substantial and workmanlike manner, and / painted in the best style, by an experien- /ced workman from Boston. He also man- / ufactures DRESS TABLES & WASH- / STANDS, superior, it is believed, to / any which can be found elsewhere.- / ALSO- / CABINET FURNITURE / of all kinds. Those wishing to purchase / are invited to call and see for themselves. / THOMAS BROWN. / Newmarket, (Lamprey River), 1831."
- Material:
- Wood
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-36 W-33.75 D-17.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Purchased from Richard Withington, Jr., for the New Hampshire Historical Society by the donors.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Garvin
- People:
- Brown, Thomas (1796-1866)
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