Chair-Table
date: label: date made
content: ca 1675
notes: label: Description
content: More than meets the eye, this 17th-century chair-table is what its name denotes, convertible from a chair into a table. The rounded top of the table flips up to become the back of the chair. Its dual-function was especially popular in homes with limited space. The chair-table originally had a drawer that slid under the seat of the chair, allowing for extra storage space.
label: Description
content: The chair-table was part of the “Greenwood Gift,” a collection of over two thousand everyday household objects donated by Arthur and Edna Greenwood. Their gift is among the greatest collections of Americana that the Smithsonian has ever collected. As Edna Greenwood once said, their gift exemplifies, “what America was, that makes it what it is.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Connecticut, Guilford
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.388038
label: catalog number
content: 388038
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chair-table
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: oak (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pine (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 78 cm x 60.5 cm x 48.5 cm; 30 11/16 in x 23 13/16 in x 19 1/8 in