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Date1750-1800

Geography Made - United States

Medium/TechniqueMahogany (top, shaft, legs), cherry (batten)

DimensionsOverall (H x W x D): 27 3/4 in. x 18 3/4 in. x 18 3/4 in. (70.49 cm x 47.63 cm x 47.63 cm)

Credit LineGift of Harriet Clayton Comegys, Vice Regent for Delaware, 1898

Object numberM-264

DescriptionTable with a fixed, circular, single-board with rounded edges on a slender column-urn-and-spool-turned shaft on a tripod base featuring three cabriole legs terminating in rounded snake feet on pads; top connects to the shaft by a single, wide, trapezoidal cleat with chamfered edges; legs with single scallops on their undersides are blind dovetailed into the pillar which has a single gouge between the legs; three-armed brace.

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