Tilt-top Table
date: label: date made
content: 1750-1769
notes: label: Description
content: Tilt-top table, circular dish top of 3 pieces with molded rim, pair parallel cleats on underside flank “bird cage" with 4 turned posts and cast brass snap lock which fits over ball and ring turned shaft on tripod pedestal of three arching cabriole legs terminating in "snake's-head" feet. Underside of tripod has wrought iron "Y" reinforcement.
label: Description
content: According to the donor, this table descended their mother’s side of the family and can be traced back to her great-grandmother, Mrs. McHaffy (née Reed) of Wilmington, Delaware.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania
label: used
content: United States: Delaware, Wilmington
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miriam Hawkins Bryant (Mrs. Eliot Bryant)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0989.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0989
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0989.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Table
label: Object Name
content: table, tilt-top
label: Other Terms
content: Table; Furniture; Pedestal; Tilt-Top
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: walnut (overall material)