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Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1957.0807
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Work table

Object number

RIF730

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

24 7/8 × 21 3/4 × 21 1/16 in. (63.183 × 55.245 × 53.499 cm)

Date

1795–1815

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Made in Connecticut, or made in Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Cherry with light and dark wood stringing (primary); white pine (rails and drawer sides and bottoms)

Marks

None

Inscriptions

None

Provenance

Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur, Delaware, by 1957; given to Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware, 1957

Associated names

Henry Francis du Pont

Bibliography

Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period, 1788–1825 (New York: Viking Press, 1966), 402–403, no. 398, ill.