Table

Object Name:

Table

Object ID:

1942.008.06

Date:

1864

Description:

Occasional Table, Victorian "Renaissance Revival" style, with trestle base. Rectangular top with bowed projections at ends and molded edges. Conforming frame with rounded sections veneered. Full-width drawer at front with rounded drop at center that serves as handle. Corresponding drop on back. Carved medallion at center of drawer and of back rail, each flanked by raised panels with incurved ends. Turned drop at each corner of rectangular frame. Base has two spirally turned uprights, a spirally turned stretcher, and two plain, rectangular trestles with rounded ends and a turned foot at each end. Each of the four feet is gadrooned at top. C-scrolled braces in the angles between uprights and trestles. Framework of rounded ends, chestnut. Drawer runners walnut. Drawer sides and back tulip poplar; drawer bottom of unidentified wood. Drawer is of side-hung construction. Glue joint in drawer bottom reinforced with fabric. Adhesive tape label on underside of table, reading "1942 Loan / M.H. Jewell". Edges of gadrooning on feet worn. Some cracks in drawer bottom at back. Slight cracks and chips in veneer. Edges of top nicked. Block of walnut in drawer, probably from another piece in the set.

Material:

Wood

Dimensions:

H-27.75 W-28.5 D-18.375 inches

Provenance:

Part of the "black walnut set," which, according to donor, was "bought in 1864" and used in her parent's home on Beacon Street in Boston, where the Jewell family lived from 1863 to 1933. Location of bed, chests of drawers, and chairs from set not presently known.

Credit Line:

Gift of Margaret H. Jewell

People:

Jewell, Harvey (1820-1881), Jewell, Susan A. (1826-1903), Jewell, Margaret H. (1866-1970)