Rack
- Object Name:
- Rack
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.52
- Date:
- 1900-1940
- Description:
- Wall Shelf, a.k.a. Whatnot Rack. Tiger maple wood, with dark stain. Three shelf unit to be mounted on a wall. Joined with wire nails. Cresting rail cut in inverted double yoke shape. Sides are cut in bracket shapes, with scrolls on the bottom. The three shelves are rectangular boards with straight fronts. Raised wire nail in top shelf. No maker's marks visible. Uneveness in shaping suggests that this may have been an early 20th-century home craft project.
- Material:
- Wood
Maple - Dimensions:
- H-30.5 W-21.5 D-6.5 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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