Work table used in the Medicine Department, Church Family, Mount Lebanon, NY

Object ID:

1950.983.1

Community:

New York, Mount Lebanon

Description

Crudely constructed work table. White pine (Pinus strobus) top and end and side aprons. Tapered square legs of a diffuse porous hardwood, probably maple (Acer spp.) or birch (Betula spp.). Painted a deep red. Top is two tongue-and-groove joined boards.

Notes

Accession information does not state a history of how or where this piece was used, but there is a nearly identical table in the collection of Hancock Shaker Village (1962-430) which was described as having come from the Mount Lebanon medicinal herb shop.

New York Mount Lebanon Church Family

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