End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
date: label: Date
content: mid 20th century
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
label: Owned by
content: Clayton Sinclair, American
label: Owned by
content: Hazel Sinclair, American
label: Subject of
content: Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
notes: label: Description
content: A wooden end table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The tall wooden table has a medium finish, four turned legs, and an octagonal tabletop with geometric, medium dark wood inlay designs. The table also has a small, deep set skirt and a small, octagonal shelf at the bottom connected to the four legs. The legs are squared at the top with rounded shapes and nodules carved into the top third of the legs. Below the bottom squared elements, the legs they are plain and taper inward towards turned feet. The open shelf near the base of the table is octagonal in shape with rounded cutouts where the legs are attached to the shelf with round head screws. At the center of the tabletop is a large, inlaid diamond shape surrounded by inlaid acute angles, hexagons, and smaller diamond shapes. The open shelf below also features a large, inlaid diamond shape at the center with four spokes extending from each side of the diamond and stretching towards each chair leg. There are smaller diamond shaped between the spokes. The underside of the open shelf is unvarnished.
place: label: Place collected
content: Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Black interiors
label: Topic
content: Business
label: Topic
content: Recreation
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Travel
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
label: Classification
content: Furnishings, Housewares, and Décor
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.12.11
objectType: label: Type
content: end tables
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: varnish on wood with metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 30 × 20 3/8 × 20 1/2 in. (76.2 × 51.8 × 52.1 cm)