Artist/Maker

Johann Frederick Belo Shop

Place Made

Date Made

1806-1825

Medium

cherry –cherry veneer –walnut –poplar

Dimensions

HOA 28 3/4; WOA 27 7/8″; DOA 21

Accession Number

2263.5

Description

Oval-top Federal period table, the top mounted on an oval apron with the usual battons, let into the top, and nailed to the inside of the legs, the apron mounted with one swelled drawer, the whole apron vaneered with a heavy vertically grained wood, the square tapered legs terminating with an outward flair. Poplar throughout except walnut drawer runners and top battons.

History

Miss Stockton was early adopted by the Levin T. Belo family. It is thought that her older things would have come from this source.