Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1964.1072
Click the image to enlarge
|
Table |
|
Object numberRIF1419 |
||
MakerMaker Unknown |
||
DimensionsHeight: 25 1/2 in. (64.77 cm) Width, top: 35 in. (88.9 cm) Width, frame: 28 in. (71.12 cm) Width, feet: 28 1/2 in. (72.39 cm) Depth, top: 23 1/4 in. (59.055 cm) Depth, frame: 16 7/8 in. (42.863 cm) Depth, feet: 18 1/4 in. (46.355 cm) |
||
Date175090 |
||
Current locationWinterthur Museum, Garden, and Library |
||
GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
||
MediumMahogany (primary); red cedar (glue blocks) |
||
MarksNone |
||
Inscriptions"...Property of / the Misses / ...Allen," in ink, on fragment of gummed paper label on underside of top |
||
ProvenanceHenry Francis du Pont (18801969), Winterthur, Delaware; bequeathed to Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1969 |
||
Associated namesHenry Francis du Pont |
||
ConstructionThe single-board top, rounded on the edge, is joined to the frame on the underside by two countersunk screws. Each rail, with the corner bracket incorporated into the rail, is tenoned and double-pegged to the legs; the joint is reinforced with vertical glue blocks. Source: Richards, Nancy E. and Nancy Goyne Evans. New England Furniture at Winterthur (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 222. |
||
See also |
||
BibliographyNancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 222223, no. 111, left, ill.Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum (New York: MacMillan Company, 1952), no. 302. |