Table
- Object Name:
- Table
- Object ID:
- 1999.028.01
- Creator:
- Symonds, Joseph E. (1840-1932)
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- Penacook, NH/Concord, NH
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Table, drop-leaf, gate-leg. Made by the J. E. Symonds Table Company (Joseph E. Symonds), Penacook, NH, c. 1900, from a tree cut in 1897. Wood (butternut top and legs), with metal hinges. Top is oval when opened, and oblong (long sides parallel, short sides curved) when folded. Legs are square in cross-section, and taper slightly in the lower 8". Rails are rectangular. 29.5" high, 36" wide, 40.5" deep with both leaves up, 10.5" deep with both leaves folded down. No maker's mark seen.
- Material:
- Wood
Butternut
Metal - Dimensions:
- H-29.5 W-36 D-40.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Made by the J. E. Symonds Table Company of Penacook for Frank E. and Mattie E. Dimond from butternut harvested on their farm in 1897. The table was donated by their grand-daughter, Flora D. Farnham (1914-2001) of Concord.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Flora D. Farnham
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