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About the Artwork

Trestle Table

between 1660 and 1680

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American

American

Pine and maple

Overall: 28 × 124 × 24 inches (71.1 cm × 315 cm × 61 cm)

Furniture

American Art before 1950

Gift of Mrs. Edsel B. Ford

46.85

This work is in the public domain.

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Provenance

Formerly in the collection of: Richardson Tavern, Medway, MA.

B. A. Behrend Eleanor Ford DIA in 1946

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Published References

Nutting, W. Furniture of the Pilgrim Century. Framingham, MA, 1924, p. 460 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 26, 3 (1947): p. 65 (ill.).

American Decorative Arts from the Pilgrims to the Revolution. Detroit, 1967, p. 19, no. 23.

Nutting, W. Furniture Treasury, Vol. 1. Framingham, MA, 1928, no. 800 (ill.).

Antiques in Domestic Settings, Vol 40. 1941, pp. 288-290.

New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, Vol. 2. Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1982, pp 213-214.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

American, Trestle Table, between 1660 and 1680, pine and maple. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, 46.85.

Trestle Table
Trestle Table