Trestle Table

Name/Title

Trestle Table

Entry/Object ID

2025.029.001

Description

Small trestle table with curvilinear top, with one drawer in the apron. Two trestles are made up of two spool or bobbin turned legs, mounted on scroll cut bracket feet connected by a bobbin turned center stretcher. Construction is crude. The eastern white pine table is grain painted in imitation of maple, with a landscape painted on the center of the top. Cottage furniture with Elizabethan Revival/Renaissance Revival influence. From MOHAI Catalog Card: small rectangular side table. Spool legs. Pumpkin pine, so called for its golden color. Painted all over with wavy lines and a small pastoral scene on top. One shallow drawer. Brought around the Horn in the early 1850s by Captain Coupe founder of Coupeville, Whidbey Island.

Category

Furniture

Furniture Details

Furniture Type

Table - Trestle

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Table, Trestle

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Table

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Support Furniture

Nomenclature Class

Furniture

Nomenclature Category

Category 02: Furnishings

Dimensions

Height

27-1/2 in

Width

30 in

Depth

18 in

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Coupe, Captain Thomas