Collection Highlights
Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York
1836-37
1952.410
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, scratching out, and touches of black ink and glazing on paper laid on brown card
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
1 of a Pair of Console Tables
Object name
1 of a Pair of Console Tables
Date
1788-1800
Medium
Mahogany; mahogany and other veneers, poplar, oak
Dimensions
Overall: 28 3/4 x 60 x 29 1/2 in. ( 73 x 152.4 x 74.9 cm )
Description
Federal mahogany half-round table used in Federal Hall; solid mahogany top screwed to the frame rails from the inside; frame consists of a solid straight back rail, a medial brace, and a curved front rail composed of five horizontal laminates and veeered; four tapered legs, front legs joined saddle-fashion to rail and rear legs probably mortise-and-tenoned into rails, corner blocks glued and nailed into rear corners; plain inlay consisting of tri-partite banding with wider dark band between two narrow light bands on lower edge of front rail; four tenons on rear edge of top; brass plaque with inscription on front rail; legs broken off and repaired, patch on top.
Credit Line
Gift of the Corporation of the City of New York
Object Number
1837.6
Marks
engraved: brass palque on front rail; "TABLE/ Used by Federal Congress/ 1789/ Federal Hall/ Corner of Wall and Nassau Street"
Gallery Label
This table is part of the furniture of Federal Hall, the home of the first U.S. Congress, but may date to after the period when Congress used the building.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
