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Date1750-1850

Geography Probably made - United States

Medium/TechniquePine (top), spruce (back apron, leg)

DimensionsOverall: 31 3/8 in. x 45 5/8 in. x 19 1/8 in. (79.69 cm x 115.89 cm x 48.58 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, 1956

Object numberW-2105

DescriptionRectangular table with serpentine-shaped top, three-sided splashboard, and a lower shelf on four, square, straight legs; the overhanging, three-board top is nailed to the frame; the splashboard sides are dovetailed to the back and are nailed and likely doweled to the top; plain, rectangular frame with solid front, rear, and side rails joined and nailed to the legs; three stretchers are joined and nailed to the legs and have a three-board shelf, incurved at front, nailed to their tops; entire exterior surface is painted brown.

see also 56-115 Outbuidling number
Published ReferencesHelen Maggs Fede, Washington Furniture at Mount Vernon (Mount Vernon, Va.: The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, 1966), 28.

George Freeland Peter, Jr., Memorabilia List: Agreement for Purchase and Sale of Personal Property, 1956, no.69.

Agnes Peter Mott, Peter Collection (Copy of a List Loaned by Miss Agnes Peter, May 1937) [PFL], bound photocopy, Curatorial File Room, 8.

Margaret Brown Klapthor & Howard Alexander Morrison, George Washington: A Figure Upon the Stage (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1982), 148.

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