- Table with Drawer
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This medium-size table with single drawer represents the sort of utilitarian form that could be placed against a wall or pulled out into a room as usage required. The design, with the single lower stretcher and high front and back stretchers, appears in the seventeenth century. However, the use of maple rather than oak and the crisp vase and paired-vase turnings, which relate to the stretcher design of early easy chairs of about 1715–30, indicate a later origin.
Technical notes: Eastern white pine (top, right drawer runner), soft maple (left front leg). The drawer construction is dovetailed, the flat bottom let into the sides and back.
Related examples: Sack 1950, p. 236; Nutting 1962, no. 854.
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.
ProvenanceE. Ross Millhiser (1894–1971), by July 24, 1957; [Ginsburg & Levy, 1957–1958]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1958; given to MFAH.
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