Draw Table

Draw Table

Public Domain

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Draw Table
Datec. 1860–1880
Possible placeTexas, United States
Possible placeTexas, United States
MediumEastern redcedar and ash
DimensionsOpen: 29 1/2 × 35 7/8 × 71 3/4 in. (74.9 × 91.2 × 182.2 cm)
 Closed: 29 1/2 × 35 7/8 × 39 in. (74.9 × 91.1 × 99.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.444
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Glazed Porch
Exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

The draw table was among the forms brought to nineteenth-century Texas by immigrant German settlers. A space-saving form originating in the seventeenth century this type of table, which continued to be made in Germany featured extensions that were either stored under the central surface or drawn out at either end for increased length.

Technical notes: Eastern red cedar (top, side rails, drawer runners), ash (legs, leaf support).

Related examples: Steinfeldt and Stover 1973, pp. 76–77, no. 92.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


Provenance[Mrs. Esther D. Lawrence]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, August 10, 1970; given to MFAH, 1969.
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