Sewing Table
Unidentified Enfield Shaker maker (Enfield, New Hampshire), American, active 1793-1923
about 1830-1840
Pine with red stain, brass
Overall: 22 1/2 × 13 1/4 × 9 in. (57.2 × 33.7 × 22.9 cm)
Base: 22 1/4 × 19 × 8 in. (56.5 × 48.3 × 20.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.22.16381
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Furniture: Table
Classification
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Exhibition History
Webster Cottage, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Shaker Joinery in New Hampshire, Spring Forum, Museum at Lower Shaker Village, Enfield, New Hampshire, April 12, 1997.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-May 1, 2002.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 12-June 22, 1997.
An Ever-Widening Circle of Friends, The Enfield Shaker Museum, Enfield, New Hampshire, May 30-October 31, 2006.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 228, no. 200.
Provenance
From "Old Shaker Colony" Enfield Shakers, New Hampshire; collected by Frank C. (1850-1912) and Clara G. Churchill (1851-1945), Lebanon, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1946.
Old Number
F.946.31.3
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