Work Table
ca. 1850 (made)
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Mahogany work table with turned and cut out decoration. Container top with two full-width drawers with two knobs each. At each end a pair of turned legs are connected by end boards with cut open-work pattern and supported on trestle feet with two turned stretchers. Machine-made
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Brief description | Work table, United States, ca. 1850, mahogany |
Physical description | Mahogany work table with turned and cut out decoration. Container top with two full-width drawers with two knobs each. At each end a pair of turned legs are connected by end boards with cut open-work pattern and supported on trestle feet with two turned stretchers. Machine-made |
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Credit line | Given by Miss Rosa Wallis |
Object history | According to the donor, Miss Rosa Wallis, this table was brought by her father, George Wallis, from the United States of America in 1853. |
Bibliographic reference | Edwards, Clive. Victorian Furniture. Technology and Design. Manchester, University of Manchester Press, 1993, illus. p. 165 |
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Accession number | W.2:3-1944 |
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Record created | June 29, 2005 |
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