Wooden table from Cedar Grove plantation
- On View
- Slavery and Freedom Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Slavery and Freedom
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- mid 19th Century
- Medium
- yellow pine, red oak, and iron nails
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 28 × 67 1/2 × 48 in., 107 lb. (71.1 × 171.5 × 121.9 cm, 48.5 kg)
- Description
- A wooden table used at Cedar Grove plantation in Edgefield County, South Carolina. The four-legged table is made of yellow pine. The table top consists of three (3) machine-milled boards finished with scrub plane on the underside and with a cabinetmaker's plane on the top side. The boards are joined with full-length tongue and groove joints, and the top is nailed to the apron. The four legs are a tapered square shape and are attached to the apron with a half-haunched offset split double mortise and tenon construction. The stretchers nailed around the outside of the legs are a later addition and are made from red oak.
- Place made
- Edgefield County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Furnishings, Housewares, and Décor
- Topic
- Cooking and dining
- Domestic life
- Slavery
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Virginia L. Burns and William Lowish in memory of Donna Gilbert Lowish
- Object number
- 2008.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.