Gate-legged Table

ca. 1700–1725

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Object Label

The taste for accumulating precious objects of different genres and displaying them together was not exclusive to Spanish America. Similar practices, though more restrained, were common in wealthy seventeenth-century New England homes. Locally made tables were draped with expensive Oriental carpets and topped with costly imported English pottery, pewter, or silver. Carpets were rare in British America and would seldom have been laid on the floor, as was common practice in Spanish America.


El gusto por acumular objetos preciosos de diferentes tipos y exhibirlos juntos no era exclusivo de Hispanoamérica. Prácticas similares, aunque más contenidas, eran comunes en las grandes casas de la Nueva Inglaterra del siglo XVII. Las mesas manufacturadas localmente a veces se cubrían con costosas alfombras orientales y se completaban con valiosas piezas de cerámica inglesa, peltre o plata. Las alfombras o tapices eran escasos en la América británica y raramente se habrían puesto en el suelo, cosa que en cambio fue común en Hispanoamérica.

Caption

Gate-legged Table, ca. 1700–1725. Walnut; yellow pine drawer, open: 26 1/2 x 58 3/4 x 49 1/4 in. (67.3 x 149.2 x 125.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Henry L. Batterman Fund, 26.35. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 26.35_bw.jpg)

Gallery

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Title

Gate-legged Table

Date

ca. 1700–1725

Medium

Walnut; yellow pine drawer

Classification

Furniture

Dimensions

open: 26 1/2 x 58 3/4 x 49 1/4 in. (67.3 x 149.2 x 125.1 cm)

Credit Line

Henry L. Batterman Fund

Accession Number

26.35

Rights

Creative Commons-BY

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