Side table with drawer

Date1750-1800

MediumMaple and white pine

DimensionsOH: 25 1/4"; OW: 34 1/8"; OD: 22 5/8"

Credit LineGift of the John D. Rockefeller, 3rd, Fund, Inc., through the generosity and interest of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, 3rd, and members of the family.

Object number1979-225

DescriptionTable with a rectangular top with bread board ends above a skirt with a single thumbmolded frieze drawer, on double vase turned legs joined by a box stretcher ending in button feet.

Construction: The top of the table is pegged to the legs; all joints between the legs, stretchers, sides, and drawer blade are mortise and tenon; the drawer supports are rabbeted around the legs and their front ends sit in a rabbet on the drawer blade and their back ends are tenoned to the backboard; the drawer sides are dovetailed, the bottom is chamfered and slid into a dado in the front, a mitered runner is glued to the bottom edge of the sides creating a dado for the bottom along the sides, it is nailed along the back.