Console with furniture key 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: 2011.12.6ab: A console (a) with a furniture key (b) from the Rock Rest Tourist Home.
label: Description
content: 2011.12.6a: A console from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The dark wooden console has a rectangular tabletop with an open bottom shelf and curved legs. There is a repeating carved, decorative pattern of double concentric circles on the skirt below the tabletop. The front of the console features a drawer with a keyhole. The keyhole is embellished with carved frame and flourishes on either side. Attached to the base are four cabriole legs that feature carved scrolls at the top, taper inwards, and flare outwards into small scrolls at the feet. The legs are connected on the short ends with two horizontal bars and five carved wavy vertical bars. The bottom shelf is open with nine, carved, fully rounded slats at the center.
label: Description
content: 2011.12.6b: A furniture key to a console from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The brass barrel key has a hollow, cylindrical shaft, and a single toothed end. The key’s bow is roughly oval shaped and features a large cutout at the center with concave sides and chevrons at the top and bottom. The central cutout is flanked on either side by small oval cutouts. The base of the bow flares outwards and terminates with vertical hatch marks just above the shaft.
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: 2011.12.6ab
objectType: label: Type
content: console 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: 2011.12.6a: varnish on wood with steel
label: Medium
content: 2011.12.6b: brass (alloy)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (2011.12.6a): 28 5/8 × 36 3/4 × 23 1/8 in. (72.7 × 93.3 × 58.7 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (2011.12.6b): 15/16 × 2 7/16 × 3/16 in. (2.4 × 6.2 × 0.4 cm)