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KC1973-504
Utility or work table
KC1973-504

Utility or work table

Date1750-1790
OriginAmerica, Virginia (probably)
MediumCherry, tulip poplar, and yellow pine
DimensionsOH: 27 3/4"; OW: 46"; OD: 34 3/8"
Credit LineGift of J. R. Hogan.
Object number1973-28
DescriptionRectangular table with an overhanging top; straight skirt with a drawer in one side; drawer has thumbnail molded edge and one wooden pull; ring and baluster turned legs with box stretchers and round turned feet; legs have bead along outside corner at rectangular sections; stretchers rectangular in cross section.
ProvenanceLetter from Harry E. Wilkes in file states that "Sometime ago a Mr. Hogan of Lynch Station told me he had given you a table out of an old home he thought to be used by Updike's but it was not, it was my Great-great-grandfather's, Brother Henry Wilkes. I have letters and paper from 1790s that were kept by him. The Updike book states Woodford, Dobyns, Shepard, Bond, and Wilkes came down with them from Loudon in Northwest Virginia and were all Quakers and all kin. From State Library in Richmond (Elizabeth Mead, my Great Grandmother 4 times was disowned at 1750s, Fairfax Meeting for marrying out of unity to my John Wilkes.) I have a lot of data; some was copied at Alderman Library, the Dbejns, Westpoint, Hopewell, Petersburg, and finally Lynchburg."