Gate-legged Table
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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)
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Collection
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Collection
Title
Gate-legged Table
Date
ca. 1700–1725
Medium
Walnut; yellow pine drawer
Classification
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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