This table, though of a relatively common form, includes several distinctive features. Its slender, tapering legs and outward-flaring feet lend an enhanced sense of height; it has two narrow drawers in place of the usual single drawer, and its maker chose cypress wood rather than more commonly used materials such as walnut.

Adapted from Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren. Texas Furniture: The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840–1880. Vol. 1, rev. ed. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2012.