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| Figure
24 Oval table with falling leaves, New
York, 1720–1750. Red gum. H. 28 1/4"; top: 33" x 39 1/2"
(open). This trestle-base table with flat gates differs from the two other
illustrated examples in that its turned uprights are tenoned up into a cross
piece at the top rather than dovetailed to a thick board. The severe warp
in the top is typical of flat-sawn red gum, a notoriously unstable wood.
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.) |