Table, Breakfast
- Object Name:
- Table, Breakfast
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.28
- Place of Origin:
- New England, possibly NH
- Date:
- 1800-1830
- Description:
- Breakfast Table. Rectangular. Rectangular leaves are hinged onto the long sides of the top and supported on rectangular slides with wooden knob pulls. Four square tapered legs. End rails maple; remainder of exterior birch. Slides birch; channel for slides pine. Pine glue blocks which have separated from rails. Four birch blocks tenoned into end rails. Seems to have been painted red. Leaves warped.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-27.5 W-42.125 D-36 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro), between 1895 and 1913.
- Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
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