Table

Table

Public Domain

Table
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Table
Datec. 1710–1750
Made inConnecticut, United States
MediumCherry
DimensionsOpen: 27 5/8 × 41 1/8 × 34 in. (70.1 × 104.4 × 86.4 cm)
 Closed: 27 5/8 × 17 1/2 × 34 in. (70.1 × 44.5 × 86.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.51
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Pine Room
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

This small, multipurpose oval table with drop leaves reflects the eighteenth-century interest in conserving space when furniture was not in use. The use of shaped brackets, which support the open leaves, seems to have been particularly popular in Connecticut. That feature caused the form to be called butterfly in the twentieth century.

Related examples: Yale (Barquist, Garrett, and Ward 1992, nos. 46, 47); Wadsworth (Kirk 1967, nos. 142, 144); MMA (acc. nos. 52.77.54, 10.125.124).

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[Israel Sack, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1954; given to MFAH, 1969.
Exhibition History

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Center Table
Deming & Bulkley
Center Table
c. 1825–1835
Mahogany; eastern white pine, cherry, paint, and gilt
B.69.526
Tea Table
Tea Table
c. 1735–1780
Mahogany; mahogany and cherry
B.54.10
Card Table
Card Table
c. 1735–1745
Mahogany and unidentified inlay; mahogany, cherry, eastern white pine, and spruce with needlework
B.69.406
Card Table
Card Table
c. 1820–1825
Mahogany, mahogany veneer, rosewood, and ebony; yellow-poplar, cherry, eastern white pine, and brass
B.68.32
Dressing Table
Dressing Table
c. 1740–1800
Cherry; eastern white pine
B.59.70
Sofa Table
Sofa Table
c. 1815–1825
Mahogany, mahogany veneer; eastern white pine, yellow poplar, cherry, and mahogany
B.71.106
Pier Table
Pier Table
c. 1825–1830
Mahogany; cherry, tulip poplar, marble, and mirror glass
B.98.13
Tea Table
Tea Table
c. 1735–1782
Cherry
B.69.349
Two-Drawer Table
Two-Drawer Table
c. 1860–1875
Cypress, pine, cherry, and brass
B.2007.22
Card Table
Card Table
c. 1820–1830
Grained, painted, and gilded mahogany, and birch; mahogany veneer on eastern white pine with black walnut banding, ash, eastern white pine, cherry, and original brass casters
B.68.31
Card Table
Card Table
c. 1800–1820
Mahogany and unidenfied inlay; eastern white pine and black cherry
B.69.408
Roundabout Chair
Roundabout Chair
c. 1750–1810
Black cherry; black cherry, and eastern white pine
B.69.143