Shaker Pine, Butternut, and Oak Bench

Description:

Shaker Pine, Butternut, and Oak Bench, New Lebanon, 19th century, the single board top bolted to perpendicular supports with canted ends, on canted, turned, slightly swelled, tapering legs with bulbous turning near the bottom, old surface, (minor imperfections),ht. 23, wd. 42, dp. 20 in.

Tom Queen notes that a table with similar turned legs, attributed to the Shakers in New Lebanon, appears in The American Shakers and Their Furniture, by John Shea, p. 47.

Estimate $800-1,200

Some old staining on the top.


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