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Trestle Table Rendered by Isadore Goldberg watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard, 32.9 x 54.2 cm (12 15/16 x 21 5/16 in.) Index of American Design 1943.8.5893 |
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The trestle table, which is described in mid-seventeenth-century inventories as a "table board and frame," is the oldest form of American table. In this New England example, the "table board" is a single plank of pine two feet wide and over twelve feet in length. The long, narrow plank rests on a frame consisting of three oak trestles. The trestles are held in position by a pine brace that passes through them and is pegged into place.
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