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Stand with Drawer

Original OwnerOriginally owned by Samuel Taylor English, 1777 - 1858

Original OwnerOriginally owned by Sally Pemberton American, 1780 - 1843

Date1785-1810

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x diameter of top): 26 3/4 x 18in. (67.9 x 45.7cm)

ClassificationsFurniture

Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund

DescriptionTable with round turned dish top with a double beaded outside edge joined to a shaped cleat from below. The cleat features the remains of the original spring catch mechanism and is cut out to hold the slide-through drawer. The drawer features straight ends with a single cast brass pull. The cleat is joined from below to the bulbous turned standard that features a prominent compressed disk element over a long tapered trumpet turning over a deep cove, over a second compressed disk element,over a cove supported by an ogee over the straight cylindrical base. The base features a serpentine shaped lower edge and is intersected by the three cabriole legs. The legs feature the shell carving of a central punch surrounded by a half round bead flanked by seven flutes surrounded by a half round scribe line intersected by a serpentine scribe line. The legs continue into tapered ankles and swelled shaped feet with small carved under-pads.

Object number2011.211.0

InscribedHandwritten on a paper label affixed to the underside of the table top: "This candlestand belongs to Ada / L. Taylor and was willed to her by / her great aunt Mary Taylor whos father / Samuel and his wife Sally Pemberton / Taylor were the original owners. / Ada is the daughter of Samuel the son of Edwin the son of Samuel / October 1902"

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